Recent studies have suggested that India’s traditional caste system remains surprisingly intact despite the country’s economic surge. A 2011 report, for instance, found that in “40 percent ...

The caste system in South Asia — which rigidly separates people into high, middle and lower classes — may have been firmly entrenched by about 2,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis suggests.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi emphasizes his commitment to empower backward communities by advocating for a caste census. He ...

Shudra: The Rising (2012): Set during the Indus Valley Civilization, the film deals with caste system in ancient India. The Sanjiv Jaiswal directed film that earned ₹ 83 lakh was dedicated to ...

Sunday Times News: From Dalit bonded labourers in Jharia, Jharkhand to Joginis, women from a a Dalit group in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh, who are forced to be sex work.

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The caste system in South Asia — which rigidly separates people into high, middle and lower classes — may have been firmly entrenched by about 2,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis suggests.

In 1871-72, the British started the system of counting castes during population surveys, purportedly to understand Indian society. The last published caste data is from the 1931 census, which ...

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India’s caste system, says a new genetic study, began about 2,000 years ago. The study adds that people from different genetic populations — from the North and the South — began to mix with ...

The caste system in South Asia — which rigidly separates people into high, middle and lower classes — may have been firmly entrenched by about 2,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis suggests.