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.

“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 ...

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

Though its precise form and content varies with time and place, caste is a strictly codified, socio-religious hierarchical ...

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

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 ...

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.