Caste and Communal Issues

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• Broken People A detailed account by Human Rights Watch of the extent and means of discrimination against lower castes.
• Castes of India An overview of the caste system, and additional notes on history, its place in modern India, and its relevance to untouchables and non-Hindus.
• Hindu History - The Emergence of the Caste System (The Jati-Varna Matrix) Account of the emergence of the hierarchical caste system by Sudheer Birodkar, with parallels drawn with class systems in other regions.
• The Caste System in Hinduism A basic introduction to the caste system, including an account of its religious justification.
• Caste System in Bengal A brief account of how the system developed in Bengal, with some notes on the differences from the rest of India.
• Dalits & Human Rights : The Battles Ahead First of a set of articles by P. Sainath on the position of Dalits in the country in the 1990's.
• Sub-Castes Among Dalits On the political issues around the existence of subcastes among Dalits and scheduled castes.
• Caste System in Modern India Read about the caste system prevailing in modern India.
• Caste in India An explanation of the caste system in history, and modern practice.
• Indian Parliament Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Reports on the activities, constitution and membership of this group, and reports produced by it recently.
• The Hindu : Politics of 'hereditary' crime Article on the 'Criminal Tribes Act' and its legacy in the form of communities that continue to be considered inherently criminal by the authorities.
• CounterCurrents.org Communalism Collection of articles, comments and analyses on the issues.
• Caste Problem in India Swami Vivekananda, with a partial justification of the caste system. Denies that the system is a product of religion, and ascribes it to other social factors.