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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Behind the news are values that drive people and nations. Explore them here. We all might think we know a lot about Jackie Robinson. OK, maybe not his shoe size, but we know his story as the first ...