GUDUTA, India (AP) — Tribal groups have held protests in support of giving Sarna Dharma official religion status ahead of the upcoming national census. GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a ...

Exploring the deep fault lines where faith, power, and ideology collide in modern India's complex landscape, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770), the great Malayalam poet, once wrote ...

(RNS) — Born in India, I’ve spent most of my life in the United States, including 20 years in academia writing about religion in America. For years, I imagined a “someday” project to write a book ...

A tribes woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Credit: AP ...

RANCHI — Every time Kamle Oraon, 50, shuts her eyes, she sees her mother scraping the bottom of a bowl to feed her four children. “We went hungry most nights,” she says. Many villages in this state in ...

An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

LUCKNOW, India — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation ...

GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, ...