I tend to take this shit a little more personally than your average libertarian honkey, especially around Saint Patrick’s Day, because I am a historically literate nerd of Irish Catholic ...

Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels ...

Her father, S Narayanaswamy Iyer, a Brahmin, was married to Chandrammal, who hailed from the Isai Vellalar caste—traditionally a group in ... alongside prominent Irish suffragists. Key members of the ...

Under Naidu’s influence, she became one of the early members of the Women’s Indian Association (WIA), an organisation founded in 1917, alongside prominent Irish suffragists ... eliminating ...

One of history's foremost examples of the effectiveness of passive resistance, as a thin little man in a white loincloth breaks the back of India's 5000 year old caste system by fasting ... leader of ...

Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950. Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance.

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah omitted the Socio-Economic Survey from the 2025-26 budget, sparking speculation that the caste census could be shelved. The report, facing opposition from dominant caste ...

The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born castes ...

Now, there are clear policy signals from both the Coalition and the main Opposition party of an intent to implement a system that is “robust, fair, firm and enforced”, as Minister for Justice ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update.

A new “digital immigration” requirement to cross from the Republic into Northern Ireland will “contradict decades of messaging about tourism on the island of Ireland”, industry ...

David Tanis’s five-star Irish stew needs only six ingredients, but the result is classic comfort. By Melissa Clark David Tanis’s Irish stew.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times.