Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

In an affidavit before the Supreme Court, the Madhya Pradesh government claimed India’s caste system was founded on “social ...

Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

McPherson on the antebellum South's systemic white supremacy: Outside the Appalachian highlands, many of them [nonslaveholders] were linked to the ruling class by ties of kinship, aspirations for ...

The friends that middle class Indian men make through their lives are nearly always other men. Their women friends tend to be the wives or partners of their male friends, friends-in-law. Metropolitan ...

The setting -- Change in San Lorenzo : 1942-1963 -- The economic order : the upper and middle classes -- Cash and subsistence economics : the lower class -- Ethnic and status groupings -- Family, ...