Maratha dominions and other Indian states had developed fairly detailed caste enumerations, used to regulate hierarchies and ...

Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...

NEW DELHI -- India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...

Presenting the biggest obstacle to India’s embrace of modernity, the caste system divides Hindus into ... The last successful exercise to record this ancient, hierarchical social identity ...

Being born in India means inheriting a place in an ancient social system which will ... Now, the government wants to know more about how the caste system is playing out in modern-day India.

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 ...

In many ways, they said, the legacy of the caste system had already shaped the trajectory of their lives, because it limits the jobs and education available to them both in India and now the U.S ...

same caste), using technology to follow an ancient Indian tradition of arranged marriages to maintain endogamy. Indian society has experienced a plethora of different kinds of matchmakers — from ...

The main concept comes from an ancient Indian religious text ... Remember, the caste system predates the colonization of India, and the Hindu-majority country itself legislates around the issue ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one ... The term "jati" appears in almost all Indian languages and is closest to the word "caste" because it is related to the idea ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one ... Caste made its way into the Indian lexicon with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 1700s who first used the word “casta ...