What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

The National Sample Survey 2014 data is used to explore the character of class inequality, over and beyond that of caste. The caste break-up of various social classes suggests that caste inequalities ...

If we are to become a truly inclusive society, we must face the issue of caste and social class head-on. Wilkerson illuminates our racial history by analogizing it to a social hierarchy that exists on ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

Children in India have a constitutional right to education. But, in reality, social hierarchy keeps many of them out of school. One marker of that hierarchy is financial status, which can adversely ...

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that caste Census of Backward Classes is “administratively difficult and cumbersome" and excluding such information from the purview of Census is a "conscious ...

Upper castes spend the most time on religious practice, have the most time to watch television and use other media, and have the most leisure time.(Priyanka Parasher/Mint) Caste, class and geographic ...

Saroj served in the Indian Army as a technical officer for 23 years and opted for premature retirement in 1991. Operational service includes 1971 India-Pakistan war in high altitude sector and two ...