In 2018, the University Grants Commission introduced the UGC-CARE list to identify legitimate journals and discourage ...

What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

The NDA's 2025 Bihar victory reflects significant upper caste, OBC, and Dalit support, highlighting complex caste and class ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Vol. 14, No. 7/8, Annual Number: Class and Caste in India (Feb., 1979), pp. 313-315+317+319+321-323+325+327-328 (11 pages) Despite progressive intentions and legal provisions, fortified by the ...

The BAFTA-nominated film “The White Tiger” tells the story of Balram, a poor but shrewd young driver in India battling against the country’s caste system. It’s based on the 2008 Booker Prize-winning ...

On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a university’s anti-discrimination policy that added “caste” as a protected class ...

Talk by Clifton D'Rozario of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation on "Caste and class in India today" at #Ecosocialism2023 conference. India's caste system was officially ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

As the morning light filters through the doorway of Sujatha’s puja room in central Chennai, she kneels before the altar, ...