Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

Amid a clamour by caste groups to club all sub-castes together ahead of the enumeration for the socio-educational survey being undertaken by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes from ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill highly watched by the South Asian community that would have banned discrimination on the basis of caste — a system of social hierarchy that ...

Seattle is the first American city to protect people against discrimination based on caste. California could become the first state. Seattle, as we have reported, is the first American city to protect ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center recently released a landmark survey on religion and society in India. Administered to 29,999 respondents in 17 languages between November 2019 and March ...

Some South Asians see the caste system as a reality in the United States and others do not. California State University and others have added caste as a protected category against discrimination. For ...

MAHARASHTRA, India (RNS) — In 2018, India’s Supreme Court recognized honor killing as a serious problem and issued guidelines to prevent it, including setting up safe houses. MAHARASHTRA, India (RNS) ...

The Chief Justice of India looked down from the middle chair in Court Number 1 and very calmly, almost in a cold tone, asked the counsel for the Christian community: Will any bishop tell the court his ...

Pune: The state Higher and Technical Education department has decided to grant a six-month extension for students belonging to the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) and Other Backward ...