A minor tension prevailed at Uthapuram in Madurai district on Wednesday afternoon as people administering the Muthalamman temple objected to Scheduled Caste people making goat sacrifice and pongal ...

UCSB sociologist Dana Kornberg examines how race, caste and institutional access shape unequal pathways to status and wealth ...

Despite this, caste Hindus stood firm in their opposition. In the evening, amid police protection, SC people offered prayers in the temple, and after they offered prayers, the temple was closed.

Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in ...

Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan has said it is "disheartening" to hear people are sometimes denied a house because of their caste or religion, and asserted this discrimination must end.

"It is disheartening to hear that people are being denied housing based on caste or religion and that has to be ended once for all. World peace and harmony can be created merely by interfaith ...

The announcement marks a high-profile intensification of the government’s efforts to claim Ambedkar. On March 30th Mr Modi ...

Chikkamagaluru: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, claimed that it was not a caste census ... Nearly five crore people come under ...

Rajasthan opposition leader Tikaram Jully Sunday accused the BJP of working on an agenda to make people fight over religion and caste while claiming the ruling party's ex-MLA Gyandev Ahuja ...

China's "lying flat" counterculture spawned the trend of doing absolutely nothing. Young people post videos of themselves lying in bed all day and celebrating the lifestyle. Some are calling ...

Bengaluru: A caste cannot be grouped in one category for reservation in education and another for employment quota, the high court has observed in a recent judgment. In his order, Justice Suraj ...