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 ...

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.

The man’s mother opposed their marriage, hurling caste-based abuses at the ... Power of apologies Neither Mahabharata nor contemporary law in India recognise the significance of acknowledgement ...

Bhagavad Gita – Long Hindu Sanskrit scripture which is part of the Mahabharata ... considered to be the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. Previously referred to as ‘untouchable’.

The caste system is a ‘unifying factor’ of Indian society, which the Mughals couldn’t understand and the British saw as a roadblock to their invasion of the country, the latest issue of the ...

Tamil poetry recited by both men and women at marathon arts festivals, called sangam, describes a caste society and extensive foreign trade with the Roman Empire that extended into southern India ...