Khap panchayats are community-based councils, acting as informal judicial bodies pertaining to the villages in North India, primarily in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Their main role till date is conflict resolution in villages, keeping in mind the caste hierarchies and …

Nationalism, as a concept refers to the desire of people sharing the same race, culture and ethnicity to form an independent country, which in their love-filled perception, is better than the others. Tagore, however, disagreed with this limited definition of …

What is Waqf? Waqf refers to an endowment made by a Muslim for charitable or religious purposes, such as building mosques, schools, hospitals, or other public institutions. It is inalienable i.e., it cannot be sold, gifted, inherited or encumbered because …