(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

(RNS) — Last week, a federal district judge ruled against two California State University professors who claimed the university’s policy barring discrimination on the basis of caste violates the U.S.

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...

Actor-director R. Parthiban has received strong support from the court in his effort to be officially recognised as a person ...

This is the 21st Century. One would think that the evils of caste, creed, race would be relics of the past.  Yet – oppression, racism, exploitation – continue to flourish, across the world. In ...

A woman from a marginalised community in the outskirts of Agra; more than two-thirds of India's 1.4 billion people are estimated to be on the lower rungs of a ...

Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...

Actor Parthiban petitions Madras High Court for a 'no caste, no religion' certificate, citing government inaction on his ...

Census started during the British rule in the country, in which Hindus and Muslims were counted. In all the censuses conducted in the country since independence, people of the Muslim community were ...

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith's rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar will determine whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power next month. More than two-thirds of ...