CHENNAI: No caste can claim a right over the administration of a temple, the Madras high court has said, asserting that a ...

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 ...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court said the court was constrained to observe that selective exercise of investigative ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based framework, social conditioning makes its presence felt ...

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 ...

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 ...

Belagavi, vice-chancellor Prof CM Thyagaraja once again came under scrutiny following allegations of caste-based ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism. (RNS) ...

How much money the Maharashtra government is providing for inter-caste marriages in the state? What is the scheme. Let’s ...

This first of a two-part data series will first describe the social composition of national presidents| India News ...