Growing up in Nepal, Gaurab Thakali was more interested in outdoor activities than pursuing artistic hobbies. He would more likely be found running or swimming before taking up skateboarding, 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 ...

Caste and Hinduism are not instricintly linked: both can function and survive without each other. Caste is in many ways basal to the social order of South Asia: there are Muslim, Christian ...

Republican vice presidential nomineeSenator J.D. Vance of Ohio walks out with his wife, Usha Vance, to speak at a rally with Republican nominee Donald Trump at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Outlook’s upcoming issue, ‘Caste vs Caste’, explores the decades-long debate over sub-categorisation and the creamy layer withing Scheduled Castes, especially in the context of a political ...

Discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of a vast global population has been justified on the basis of caste. In much of Asia and parts of Africa, caste is the basis for the ...

California's legislature has become the first in the US to approve a bill banning caste discrimination. Legislators said the measure would protect people of South Asian descent who allege unfair ...

"We are victims of violence because we are poor, lower caste and women, so looked down upon by all," a Dalit woman told researcher Jayshree Mangubhai some years ago. "There is no one to help or ...

The RSS supports the caste census, stressing it should be used solely for the welfare of underprivileged communities and not for political purposes. This debate is highlighted as the Parliament's ...

No. 2 IDENTITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS with Symposium on Caste and Psychology April 2024 pp. 49-341 OPEN ACCESS No. 1 REFORMATION BEYOND REPRESENTATION: The Social Life of the Constitution in Remedying ...