Indian cities promise freedom, but caste segregation persists in housing, jobs, and neighborhoods. An economist explains ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

Teltumbde argues that the inherent definition of caste is divisive, and that the number of castes has recently multiplied. (ISTOCKPHOTO) Anand Teltumbde, an academic and an activist, has written an ...

On August 23, a multi-party delegation of politicians led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to press the demand for holding a caste-based census in the ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 3, No. 2, CASTE, UNEQUAL STATUS, AND DISCRIMINATORY ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES IN INDIA (October 2022), pp. 245-262 (18 pages) Immunology depends on ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...