Please serve 10mg of sodium azide to all the Dalit students at the time of admission.”The above lines are from a letter written by Rohith Vemula to the Vice Ch ...

The Indian caste system dictates the course of an individual's life — their profession, social circle, and sense of self. It ...

There is a certain kind of liberal Hindu thought that dissociates itself from the “narrow bigoted nature” of Hindu religious ...

MV Govindan ridiculed advocates of 'Sanatan Dharma' for claiming that having Brahmin children is the most sacred and ...

It was clear that she believed that those who consumed it – the overwhelming majority of the Indian population: Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis and Shudras – were inferior. How can a person justify ...

This is because the Hindu system of varnas that divides society into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras was influenced by Buddhism in the third century. That was the time when most of the ...

Women in the country have struggled for centuries for their rights, freedom and ownership. It seems history has been quite ...

He gave them land. He also secured Shudras from neighbouring regions to till the land. Many Brahmins of Maharashtra, right up to the 19th century, argued that no king in India, other than Rajputs ...

One of the key attractions is Shri Panchayati Akhada Nirmal, which represents a unique confluence of Vedic wisdom and Guru ...

According to Singh, "Manusmriti harbors such intense resentment toward these non-Aryan Shudras that, while exempting Brahmins ...