Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Aleena, 29, is well known in the world of Malayalam poetry—her award-winning book, Silk Route, was published in 2021—but ...

Caste discrimination and racism are major problems in Nepal. Despite having legal recourse against race and caste ...

On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a ...

Gill responded with a tweet that drew immediate criticism: “America is the ‘land of opportunity’ precisely because we DON’T have a caste system. We cannot sustain America’s prosperity ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

After the Telangana Assembly passed on Tuesday two bills to enhance reservation of Other Backward Classes to 42 per cent, Lok ...

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The proposed caste-based survey will be conducted in Jharkhand in the next financial year, a minister said in the state ...

The caste system, developed in India, divides people into separate groups based on birth, marriage and occupation. Warinder Juss, Labour MP for Wolverhampton West, said amendments suggested in ...