For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official trailer for “Origin” distributed by Neon. In a montage of the ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

Since at least 2017, a series of high-quality polls show that a majority of Americans believe that a so-called deep state of unelected elites wields dominant power in the U.S. The term “deep state” is ...

The BAFTA-nominated film “The White Tiger” tells the story of Balram, a poor but shrewd young driver in India battling against the country’s caste system. It’s based on the 2008 Booker Prize-winning ...

Scholar Anand Teltumbde examines a country driven to a dead end, where the opposition is silent and citizens have been ...

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...