Punjab has a long history of egalitarian beliefs as it nurtured Sikh and Sufi thoughts. However, it also has a very high ...

Considered the topmost hierarchy in India's caste system, the Brahmins are seen by many as 'oppressors' of lower castes. It has resurfaced after Donald Trump suggested at the NABJ meeting ...

Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at ... Caste segregates individuals at birth into predetermined social groups with Brahmins, who served ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England." The Boston Brahmins have long held the interest of casual and ...

Gandhi likens the caste system in India to the hidden iceberg ... These groups often avoid naming specific castes like Brahmin, Bania, Kayastha, Khatri or Kshatriya, preferring the vague term ...

If the brahmin community, because of its better learning, benefited initially, others did not lag behind. When education brought them social enlightenment, the otherwise well-off upper caste non ...

Caste People included in this caste Particular duties of these people in society Brahmins Teachers and priests ... Dalits Excluded from the ‘caste system’, the people who are today called ...