The Original Caste is a Canadian folk group. The band formed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1966 under the name The North Country Singers. Because the...

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and...

The Scheduled Indian Castes and Scheduled Indian Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups...

The Maratha caste is composed of 96 clans, originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the peasant (Kunbi), shepherd...

song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. Canadian pop group The Original Caste (consisting of Dixie Lee Innes, Bruce Innes, Graham Bruce, Joseph...

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. The...

The Dom (Sanskrit: डोम, romanized: Doma, lit. 'a man of Dalit caste, living by singing and music'), also known as Domra, Domba, Domaka, Dombara and Dombari...

Khandayat, also spelled Khandait, is a cultivating caste, as well as a peasant militia or landed militia caste from Odisha, East India. Some of them had earlier...

the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. They are also called Harijans. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste...