The most populous country in the world, India, has long ... history of the traditional caste system in India," Kerdoncuff and ...

Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

A Google search for basic information on India's caste system lists many sites that, with varying degrees of emphasis, outline three popular tropes on the phenomenon. First, the caste system is a ...

The migrants' descendants have been identified by DNA markers ... the Hindu caste system. Many retain their own languages, which are distinct from the main Northern and Southern Indian language ...

India's Supreme Court has reversed one of its previous judgements that was criticised for "diluting" protections for lower castes. The earlier ruling on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe ...

India's government has launched two transformative schemes to uplift the economically weaker sections of society: the ...

That is what I intend to do in this column. The fundamental reason for India’s social capital deficit is the caste system—specifically, the segregation of people, over the past 70 generations ...