Explore the origins of the caste system, rooted in political and economic factors rather than purity, pollution, or race.

India, June 6 -- 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...

Less than a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a glowing tribute to Sufism and its spiritual teachings embodying India’s cultural legacy, fanatical Hindu mobs have been seized with a ...

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. Caste ...

(RNS) — At the crux of the HAF lawsuit is the question of whether caste is inherently tied to Hindu dharma. (RNS) — The Hindu American Foundation has filed a complaint against the state of California, ...

If we are to become a truly inclusive society, we must face the issue of caste and social class head-on. Wilkerson illuminates our racial history by analogizing it to a social hierarchy that exists on ...

Can someone please explain to me the Hindi Caste system? Is it really perpetuated by that otherwise beautiful religion? In my quest for knowledge that I will probably never use I have purchased some ...

When a close relative came of marriageable age, his parents enrolled him on a matrimonial phone application to arrange a suitable match (read: same caste), using technology to follow an ancient Indian ...