In the book, author Swami Vigyananand argues that Hindu scriptures & ancestors didn't discriminate against people based on ...

The Purusha Suktam of the Rig Veda (10.90) is a profound hymn that envisions the Virat Purusha, the Cosmic Being, as the ...

Show Full Article The failure of the nation in not being able to dismantle the caste system is evident in the rising demand ... For the record, in ancient India there were only four proper castes ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

Former chairman of Karnataka Bhovi Development Corporation, G.V. Seetharamu, has raised questions over the classification of Bhovis as sub-caste instead of main caste during the ongoing survey of ...

This hidden inequality operates in plain sight: caste matters precisely enough to access quotas, then matters little enough to avoid discrimination. The system thus perpetuates a perverse bargain ...

Assam is gearing up for a caste census targeting its seven native Muslim communities, aiming to differentiate them from immigrant Muslims of Bangladesh origin. CM Sarma announced the initiative to ...