Jaipur: Shahu Patole, author of Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada talks about how in her village “seven castes till the same earth ...

The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than ...

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.

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.

Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller “Caste,” the film dramatizes Nazi Germany and connects it to other global systems of oppression. (JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the ...