Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based ...

A caste system is a strict social stratification that often depends on discriminatory conceptions of purity or contamination that are passed on through family lines. It can be illegal but caste ...

Caste denotes a system of rigid social stratification into ranked groups defined by descent and occupation. Under various caste systems throughout the world, caste divisions also dominate in ...

The conspicuous absence of caste in the public consciousness of Bengal is accompanied by an equally noticeable lack of a ...

[Over the last fifty years, caste and communal differences in Indian society have been asserting themselves in increasingly violent forms, with more powerful groups attempting to brutally suppress ...

I wrote a column in this paper (‘The Origin of our Discontents’, 27 May 2023) about a groundbreaking book: ‘Caste: The ...