Only a select few scribes were taught the complicated system, which remained the official ... high on a bluff above the TigrisRiver. Soon the pyramid-like ziggurats, temples and palaces of the ...

Semma challenges us to not only reframe what Indian cuisine is, but also how we value it, what we value, and how we conceptualize price and worth. Semma asks us why the “bree-yani cart” across the ...

Outraged by the controversy, Anurag Kashyap questioned how the Brahmins still exist if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully eradicated the caste system in India. In an Instagram post ...

Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in ...

I n an exclusive interview with Filmfare, acclaimed actress Chhaya Kadam opens up about her experiences with caste ...

UCSB sociologist Dana Kornberg examines how race, caste and institutional access shape unequal pathways to status and wealth ...

Dr BR Ambedkar insisted caste must not be allowed to obstruct the path to liberation. What one should hold as a social fact ...

According to the last available census, nearly 80 per cent of Indians are Hindus, practice Hinduism and follow the caste system. The Phules fought for the right to education and equality for ...