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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.

Shreeja Rao, a young Dalit woman, writes about what it means to forge a sense of joy, camaraderie and community with other women of India’s lowest caste.

A recent report has recommended ‘blind’ recruitment for India’s civil service to prevent caste discrimination. But this is unlikely to solve the problem of entrenched privilege.

She attended to the poor, regardless of their caste, ... Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Overlooked No More: Rani of Jhansi, India’s Warrior Queen Who Fought the British.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.