Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

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 ...

However, the complex system of administration specialising in selected areas of administration ... This is an absorbing book that describes in a very lucid style the transitions and transformations of ...

India's constitution was written by BR Ambedkar, a member of the Dalit community which is at the bottom of the caste system The colonisers invented or constructed Indian social identities using ...

At one level, caste in India is very much like a tribe in Africa. But how do the beliefs and practices within one caste ...

“An undeniably unique feature of economic inequalities in India is that they are closely intertwined with the deeply rooted caste system,” say economists including Thomas Piketty in a recent report ...

The initiative has met with both praise and skepticism, it is essential to examine the motivations behind it and recognize ...

“The Framework acts as a roadmap for governments, non-government organisations, businesses and civil society organisations to ...