Brahmin groups, which filed their Supreme Court challenge in 2006 knowing India’s creaky legal system would stall reform for years, counter that allowing lower-caste priests to practice at major ...

Indian judge goes viral with speech claiming upper-caste Brahmins 'should always be at the helm' Video of Kerala high court judge Justice V Chitambaresh's speech has been widely shared on social ...

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based ...

The phrase "A Brahmin Without Caste" refers to an anthology of tributes to Rishi Kumar Mishra, founder of Observer Research Foundation, the influential Reliance Industries-supported think-tank.

We are called Vadnagara Brahmin because our caste originated in Vadnagar. It’s a village in Gujarat. As far as I know, my grandfather spent his youth in India then went abroad to Uganda.

I assume for this that you know that caste is very old in India, reaching back thousands of years, and that the simple classification of Brahmin (priest, educated leader), Kshatriya (warrior ...

Caste-away: India's caste system may be impossible to dismantle, but Yashica Dutt wants to try ... “You must be Brahmin,” the man at the Devon Avenue restaurant deduced.

One of the world's biggest – and longest - festivals of classical music and dance begins in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state, this week but only a tiny percentage of the city's residents ...