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 ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a six-chapter article on the economy of India, published this week. In “lombard street”, published in 1873, Walter Bagehot, then editor of The Economist, wrote ...

Recently, Saudi Arabia took a historic step by scrapping the kafala system, which had controlled migrant workers for over 50 ...

While attending a wedding in March, M. K. Stalin, the chief minister of India’s fastest-growing state, Tamil Nadu, made a peculiar request: “Earlier we used to say, take your time and have a baby. But ...

This is an age old system of self-governance among Jharkhand’s Ho adivasi community, which, since British times, has been a central feature of the state’s administrative apparatus.