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.

Some argue that the caste system is a “dynamic aspect of modern economies” that impacts as much as a fifth of the world’s ...

Caste determines social status across vast swathes of South Asia, with surnames often indicating ... and a crusader against the caste system, BR Ambedkar. Caste was recognised as a form of ...

Richards Prize for "the most distinguished work of scholarship in English on South Asia". The book also won ... for those enjoying advantages of the caste system to acknowledge its existence ...

The issue of a caste census is torn between the ideas of social justice and political correctness.

Instead, someone else handed him a plate of food. The caste system is one of the oldest forms of surviving social discrimination in South Asian countries, including India and Nepal. In India ...

In much of South Asia, race has become coterminous with caste in the definition and exclusion of distinct population groups distinguished by their descent. Despite formal protections in law ...

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 ...

It brings out in detail some enduring caste-conflicts that marked the politics of the partition of the province and that have so far gone unacknowledged in mainstream histories of the subcontinent. An ...