that some of his fellow Hindus were unconvinced that the caste system needed to be addressed at all. Shanmugam is among those American Hindus who believe that the Indian diaspora has grown to the ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

"Despite 75 years of our Constitution, sections of society are yet to shed this unwanted baggage. The very operation of the constitutional scheme is frustrated, and the caste system leads to the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday has passed, and we are heading into Black History Month, making this a good moment to ...

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.