Union minister Nitin Gadkari emphasized his belief in service to society over religion or caste in public matters, even at ...

Fasting, praying and eating according to religious rules is impossible in some jails, ex-prisoners and groups say.

Consensual conversions among Scheduled Caste Hindus to Islam in Pakistan stem from the inability to afford cremation costs and the marginalization by Muslims and upper-caste Hindus. Community ...

He noted that caste and social stratification were present among Muslims as well. In Pakistan or The Partition of India, he ...

Dalits' battle for temple entry sheds light on the state's rarely discussed caste-based oppression and covert caste conflict.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, speaking at a Nagpur convocation, emphasized equality and criticized caste-based politics. He ...

True morality in Islam lies in treating every person with sincerity, without hidden intentions or distinctions ...

Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

Malayalam filmdom’s megastar Mammootty has been dragged into a controversy by a religious zealot O Abdullah, a ...

India’s Supreme Court issued a notice to a church and local authorities in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on a petition ...

The deposed Hasina government’s toxic politics, which stigmatised their opponents as ‘Islamists’ (meaning terrorists and anti-liberation forces) and projected their loyalists as ‘Chetonabadis’ ...

with which the caste system is popularly affiliated, into Christianity and Islam. Violence against Dalits has occasionally inspired more radical political groups, such as the Dalit Panthers ...