The High Court of southern Tamil Nadu has ordered the state government to ensure that socially poor Dalit people can enter ...

The devotees rushed to collect soil from the ground the man had just walked on, thousands thronging to the front of a venue ...

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Brandeis University banned caste discrimination over complaints from some Hindus in 2019; the California State University system added caste to their nondiscrimination policy in early 2022. Richa ...

There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

The caste system evolved over millennia, as the Indian subcontinent was led by different rulers, but was officially outlawed in 1948 — a year after India's independence from Britain.

In India, the caste system over the centuries led to chronic discrimination against “lower” castes and the caste system is banned by the Indian Constitution. Amid the debate about caste discrimination ...

The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Indian Hindu caste system and have been treated as "untouchables." Item 1 of 2 Downtown Seattle is seen in this aerial photo taken over Seattle ...

Codified in several ancient Hindu texts, most notable of which is the Manusmriti, the caste system is one of the oldest – and still surviving – systems of social stratification.

The system allows many privileges to upper castes but represses lower castes. Crime against Dalits across India rose by 9.4% from 45,961 cases in 2019 to 50,291 in 2020, according to data from the ...

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - The family of an Indian teenager from India's lowest Hindu social caste said he died on Monday after being beaten with a stick by a school teacher for making a spelling ...