Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

"The exclusionary caste system is real. Caste-based discrimination is real. Dalit and their lived reality, indigenous people and their struggles, LGBTQI+ and their defiance, people with ...

She chose to speak in English to a Hindi-speaking audience ... New Delhi: Only in India does a panel discussion about how to break the caste system turn into one where every panellist concludes ...