Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

Bengaluru: Caste, for most citizens, is something they inherit at birth — recorded, recognised, and carried through life in ...

Travancore’s Mulakkaram, or breast tax, was a caste-based levy imposed on lower-caste women for covering their chests, ...

The Menon Investigation is set in the India governed by caste rules. Here, inter-caste couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, in Coimbatore in 2023. | Photo Credit: Periasamy M “Don’t go around in the ...

Bahujan” formulation, arguing that it flattens Bahujan political agency, misreads movements like the farmers’ protest, and recentres savarna epistemologies while ignoring Ambedkarite ideological ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power.Teltumbde critiques ...

A New Democratic History, Rohit De and Ornit Shani show how upper-caste Hindus tried to protect caste privilege by presenting ...

The Class 7 NCERT Social Science textbook is now opening up the history of early medieval India. Kings who remained absent ...

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 ...

Controversy is outsourced to non-elite voices while the state’s dominant social and economic blocs remain untouched – almost.

In millions of Indian kitchens pork, beef and offal, horrifying to upper-caste Hindus, take centre stage. Generations of ...

In India, a hidden data trove reveals how the censorship regime has now evolved from simply cutting minor scenes to ...