The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power.Castes have often tried to......
'Hindus are proud of what the Dharmashastras symbolise, but they don't want to do any work to preserve it!,' Sanskrit scholar Donald Davis tells Kanika Dutta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
For many years Leela Prasad, associate professor of ethics at Duke University, had known Sringeri only as visitors know it: As the home of a 1,200-year-old Shankara Math and Sharada Temple. But in......
In 1990, at the height of the anti-Mandal agitation in India's northern states, us editorial page writers of The Times of India were divided over the issue of reserving government jobs for the......
If GDP growth is to be measured at market prices, indirect tax revenues will play a crucial role, never mind what the government eventually does with them, notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan If you......