The landslide victory of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections has created a perception that the voters have risen above caste and class considerations while ...

Payal Tadvi was a 26-year-old postgraduate medical student at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital who allegedly died by suicide in May 2019 following severe caste-based harassment by three senior doctors For ...

The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by ...

What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...

If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate ...

Every complex society faces the difficult task of placing its members into roles that are necessary for the society to survive. These roles must be filled with as little conflict and confusion as ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

Mahesh Kewat's candidature is not built on caste identity alone. His religious and regional profile gives the BJP an ...

This image is from the official trailer for “Origin” distributed by Neon. In a montage of the tragedies of race-based and caste-based oppression near the end of Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” Isabel ...

CHENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his ...