Karnataka’s 2025 caste survey exposes political inequality and rising minority marginalisation. Explore new data, ...

This story appeared as The Big Blind Spot in Outlook’s December 11 issue, Dravida, which captures these tensions that shape the state at this crossroads as it chronicles the past and future of ...

By elevating Pankaj Chaudhary as State BJP chief, the party is betting on non-Yadav OBC consolidation to blunt the Samajwadi ...

Dalit thinkers argue that caste as a dimension of social oppression was sidelined in communist practice. Intellectuals within ...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she "otherwise loved very much" — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

California may become the first state in the nation to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard people of South Asian descent say is necessary to protect them from discrimination in housing, education and ...

Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, traces the demands put ...

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...

California may become the first state in the nation to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard people of South Asian descent say is necessary to protect them from discrimination in housing, education and ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

However, in arid districts like Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu, it is a lived and recurring condition. Here, drought does not ...