In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

Jati refers to a community, and varna refers to a classification system which determines which jati is ‘high and pure’ (dvija) and which is ‘low and impure’ (adhama). There are 2,000 jatis ...

Later, in the Yajurveda, we are told that Vaishyas are born of the Rigveda, Kshatriyas from the Yajurveda, and Brahmins from the Samaveda. We cannot talk about Hinduism without caste. When we say ...

We are a nation divided by caste, which is antithetical to the tenets of the Upanishads. Caste has stained our civilisational ...