When one upholds an identity, they are also committing to embrace many opinions and perceptions that come with it. What ...

The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by ...

Anthropologist Carola E. Lorea traces Matua struggles over displacement, citizenship and caste as electoral politics reshapes ...

"The problem is with Mr Rahul Gandhi. Even if you have to be a doctor, this kind of argument comes into it without knowing ...

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 ...

Madras High Court said Tamil Nadu's evolving electorate offers a historic opportunity to eradicate caste discrimination ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

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Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...

The controversy surrounding Ram Charan’s latest film Peddi began with criticism over its portrayal of women, particularly the ...

More often, Islam’s egalitarian principles are invoked by Muslims to avoid deeper engagement with the question of caste ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...