The modern caste system developed in India. The fragmentation of the Mughal Empire led, in the centuries before the British Raj, to the spread of caste archetypes as a way to cement political ...

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

That an upper caste neta ‘purified’ a temple visited by a Dalit neta is shocking, and as BJP knows, politically damaging The ...

Phule’ seems to be the latest among the long line of alternative movies that have faced significant hurdles on the way to the big screen, simply for exploring Dalit-Bahujan identities and narratives ...

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is rightly called the “Architect of Modern India” for his unmatched contributions: He didn’t just fight for rights—he built systems to sustain them. 1. Never let your background ...

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party doesn’t take kindly to people who disrupt the country’s caste system. For those who don’t know, the caste system is a 3,000-year-old Hindu theological ...

The White Tiger,” which debuts Friday on Netflix, is the kind of widescreen epic of class struggle about an ambitious, ...

Until the modern age they ... and outside the Hindu caste system. Many retain their own languages, which are distinct from the main Northern and Southern Indian language groups.

He was India’s first revolutionary who fought against the caste system. If Chhaava movie can be released, even promoted by the BJP government, then what is the problem with Phule’s film who ...

Why did Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee of India ... anti-caste movements attribute the deeply entrenched and codified chaturvarna (four divisions) system that ...