India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based ...

Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi, has emphasised the importance of a caste ...

But enforcement has been spotty. The popularity of stickers—and the deference they can inspire—is partly a reflection of India’s longstanding caste system, in which some people command ...

Shahani Goswami, the lead actress of the film 'Santosh', expressed her disappointment on Thursday over the movie not being ...

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.

It is true that Bengal’s caste politics has not quite acquired the toxic edges of the kind that pervades the social and the political spectrums in North India. Caste’s subterranean presence in the ...

Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, are placed on the lowest rung of India’s rigid caste hierarchy and are often targeted ...

State BJP leaders have accused Pampa Pal, who helms a Trinamul-run zilla parishad in North Dinajpur, of having two caste certificates and sought a probe. Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday ...