Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said grooming gang perpetrators are "peasants" from "sub-communities" in other countries. She has now met survivors after revealing last week she had not met ...

Kemi Badenoch has blamed the grooming gangs scandal on people of a “peasant background” who come from “sub-communities” within some foreign countries. The Tory leader repeated her call for ...

In his commentary (on I.iii.36), Shankara cites Manusmriti (X.126) in denying the purificatory rites for Shudras thus: “The Shudra belongs to the fourth caste and has but a single birth ...

It's a tale that has been interpreted and amplified as one about Punjabi machismo, the rebellion of a peasant hero who refused to kowtow to the great Mughal, a Rajput braveheart who fought for the ...

Vishakhadatta's Description The Mudrarakshasa, a Sanskrit play, describes Chandragupta as a man of modest beginnings, aligning with the possibility that he belonged to the Shudra varna.

The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the ...