Residents of Bajura's Muktikot village prepare to head to India for work after failing to find jobs at home. Photo: DHANU BISHWAKARMA "I shut down my poultry farm as the villagers did not buy fresh ...

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 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste. Newsom’s decision caps off months of fiery debate among members of the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill earlier this month that would have made California the first state to ban caste-based discrimination. Senate Bill No. 403 would have expanded the definition of ...

When Prem Pariyar first came to the U.S. from Nepal in 2015, he got a job at an Indian restaurant in California and was assigned a room to live in by the restaurant’s owner. But other workers didn’t ...

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One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The University of California, Davis, has added caste to its anti-discrimination policy after students said they have seen discrimination take place at the university based on the ...

A bill approved this week by the California legislature would ban the discrimination of people based on caste, equating it to discrimination against someone’s ancestry. Why now: Supporters of Senate ...

California might become the first state in the nation to ban discrimination based on caste, a hierarchical system based on birth that affects South Asians all over the world. Senate Bill 403, which ...