In an interview with Frontline, the Dalit poet and thinker Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy discusses Buddha, Basava, and Ambedkar’s ...

Brahmin priests had refused to conduct Shivaji’s coronation claiming he was a Shudra, from a lower caste, who could not hold the royal title of Chhatrapati. Shivaji, then laid claim to the ...

Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...

In fact Phule’s anti-caste fervour, his growing number of village ... in 1946 and discussing the Shudra varna in detail, had ...

Inheriting an anti-upper caste party in a BJP-dominant India is not a privilege by any measure. Unlike elite political dynasties, where succession is often about expanding power, Shudra dynasties ...

Muslims in Maharashtra, even during Shivaji Maharaj’s time, have stayed loyal to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and even today ...

Here by 'Shudra women', Mateer means the Nair women ... places of worship being made open to all Hindus irrespective of caste the Pongal started gathering momentum and enthusiasm that we see ...