The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

There are hundreds of caste groups based on occupation and economic status across India, particularly among Hindus, but the country has limited, or outdated data on how many people belong to them.

The measure, the first such effort by a US state legislature, would give people legal recourse to address claims of caste bias and discrimination in housing, employment, education and other arenas.

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 ...

But other workers didn’t want to room with him, he said, because he is Dalit — the lowest-ranked caste, formerly known ... and anything that affects people's money.

He also said for the Congress, the "caste census" is the foundation and a tool for policy making. Addressing the "Samvidhan Samman Sammelan" here, Gandhi said, "90 per cent people are sitting out ...

It carries jail sentences of up to six months for upper-caste people if they use slurs like chamar. But such pride songs did not come out of the blue, says Dalit novelist Desraj Kali. In the past ...

Finally, she travels to India, where she connects the plight of Dalit people in a caste-based, divided society to that of black people in America and Jewish people in Germany. What she creates is ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who belongs to the Ezhava community, on Thursday said that people continued to talk about his caste. “Some people remind me of my caste quite often,” he ...