“Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful...
The Hindutva ideologues have developed a theory that Muslim rule is responsible for the rigidity of the caste system. One of them explains “When Islamic invasions started from the 9th...
To understand the essential features of the caste system and its development, it is important to distinguish between jati and varna which together constitute the basis for the caste system....
The earliest ideological resistance faced by the caste system were from the Shramanas. The Shramanas were wandering spiritual seekers who came from non-Brahmin castes. They lived in forests as a...
Caste has been noted as one of the most important problems in the specific context of Indian democratic revolution. In fact caste is directly related to the particular nature of...