For decades, politics in Uttar Pradesh has revolved around caste arithmetic. Political parties built their electoral strategies around social identities, community loyalties and traditional vote banks ...

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The benefit of this scheme is available only when one of the spouses belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC) and the other is a non ...

Southeast Asia’s Border Disputes: Wars in Waiting? In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

A formal apology may not lead to concrete changes. Instead, pursuing reparations could help reimagine the project of social ...

If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism. (RNS) ...