What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they ...

What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they ...

Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by Andy Smith The Caste System: An Overview Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where ...

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

India's age-old caste system Voter composition in Uttar Pradesh For voter analysis in the state, the Other Backward Classes (OBC) and the Scheduled Castes (SC) are divided into more specific groups.

The caste system in India is not just about social hierarchy—it is also about social and psychological control. It thrives because people believe in it, even when it hurts them (Jost, 2020).

The film “Origin,” like the book “Caste” on which it was based, offers a powerful paradigm for understanding America’s bitter racial divide, writes author and theologian Keith Magee.

Writer Martha Ann Overland reports from New Delhi that though India is driven by a rigid caste system, she, as an American living there, is fighting to prevent caste divisions in her New Delhi ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made California the first U.S. state to outlaw caste-based discrimination. Caste is a division of people related to birth or descent.

Praveen Sinha, a professor of accounting at California State University, Long Beach, filed a lawsuit last year challenging the university system’s addition of caste to its discrimination policy. Mr.