Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

A caste system is a strict social stratification that often depends on discriminatory conceptions of purity or contamination that are passed on through family lines. It can be illegal but caste ...

Caste denotes a system of rigid social stratification into ranked groups defined by descent and occupation. Under various caste systems throughout the world, caste divisions also dominate in ...

[Over the last fifty years, caste and communal differences in Indian society have been asserting themselves in increasingly violent forms, with more powerful groups attempting to brutally suppress ...

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The conspicuous absence of caste in the public consciousness of Bengal is accompanied by an equally noticeable lack of a ...