Here's why it made the list ...

Here are some of André Béteille’s most important works, which continue to shape sociological thinking in India and beyond: ...

Suraj Yengde’s Caste is an unflinching examination of how hierarchy adapts, travels, and survives in modern life ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics Circle ...

Caste census has been a consistent demand of the Socialist parties of different hues and OBC organisations in the country ever since the rise of the Mandal movement. The scholarly debate on caste ...

'The Case Con Census' revisits numerous previous scholarly debates on caste and problematises the politics surrounding caste and identity in modern India. This article went live on January ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads.

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

The book edited and translated by Nikhil Pandhi, ‘Love in the Times of Caste’, was launched at Delhi’s Gulmohar Club. It ...