Browsing Tag: Caste

Caste System, an evil that Guru Nanak was strictly against, and dispelled people’s ignorance about it by saying “Manas ki jaat sabh ekay pehchaanbo” seems to have been finding its stronghold in Punjab where the Sikh...

A recent study has reportedly revealed that not even 1% of Sikhs settled in north-eastern and southern states identify themselves with their gotras/castes/surnames.

The Sikh religion does not believe in 'changing one's religion or conversion;...

Caste is one of those dark secrets in our community. Some defend it as “culture”, others downplay its discriminatory effects, and some go even as far as to blame the victims of the violence itself.

She was called dirty, ugly, a "little packet of poison," the offspring of donkeys. These days, Kalpana Saroj is called something else: a millionaire.

The large majority of those who visit India may not see or recognize the grim realities that disable the lives of about 170 million people in the country’s Dalit community. For the women and girls of this community, trapped in two straitjackets of caste and gender, the constraints and barriers have few parallels.

For a faith that has in many ways been based on the irrelevance of caste, Sikhs spend a lot of time obsessing over it. The latest trend in caste oneupsmanship is to pour over our history and start splitting the great Sikh personalities by caste.

How did the caste system make its way back into Sikhism?

Discrimination on the grounds of caste and social standing in Hindu and Sikh communities - may be happening in the UK,..

The caste system is deeply entrenched, complex and structured.