We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities ...

While tracing the existence of untouchability in Indian social life, Suraj Milind Yengde's book unveils the caste-based ...

Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

Aravindan Neelakandan in his ‘A Dharmic Social History of India’ has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the Indian caste system. That the Indian caste system is rigid has ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.

The Hindu Manifesto addresses the divisive issue of caste within Hindu society and offers insight into the evolution of the RSS worldview regarding a non-discriminatory social structure.

While anti-caste movements attribute the deeply entrenched and codified chaturvarna (four divisions) system that defines Hindu society, to the Manusmriti, other texts such as the Yajnavalkya ...

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

We cannot talk about Hinduism without caste. When we say caste, we are using a European word. The local words are jati and varna. Jati refers to a community, an ...

THE purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a caste system already exists in North America, and to consider the possibility that the system may, in the future, be extended and organized ...

A central university has received approval from the Bar Council of India to launch an LLB programme focused on Indian Jurisprudence that will include selected portions from Smriti texts, including ...