They are now associated with the middle-class and social advancement and make up around one fifth of India’s population. The lowest of the four ancient social classes, or Varnas-, the Shudras were ...

IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race ... much material for a continuous sketch of social life or an account of the individual actors ...

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification ... a grouping called the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) which fall between the traditional upper castes ...