Government-funded institutions in India reserve a percentage of seats for historically disadvantaged groups as part of their affirmative action efforts. However, many upper-caste and general ...

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.

In what ways would Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship enforce a caste system in the United States? The 14th Amendment makes everyone born here equal. It is a non-caste-based ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and professor Sukhadeo Thorat discuss the need for a caste census in India and highlight BR Ambedkar's movement against caste discrimination. Gandhi emphasizes that ...

India can’t achieve its potential while leaving the majority of its youth behind. Either we transform education into a true tool of liberation, or we perpetuate a system that maintains caste ...

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi Monday launched a fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central ...

His inclusion in the panel has sparked criticism from the BJP, which argues that foreign involvement in analysing India’s caste demographics is unnecessary and potentially problematic.

Addressing the convocation ceremony of Central India Group of Institutions in Nagpur, Nitin Gadkari declared that he wouldn't compromise on caste politics. Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday ...

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Two of the three men appeared at the special court in Mainpuri district on Tuesday A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly ...

A group of five members of Das families — four women and a man — from Gidhgram village's Daspara area in the district's Katwa subdivision climbed the steps of the temple around 10 am, poured ...