Nepal, May 12 -- based discrimination is so entrenched in Nepal, even the country's legal system fails to see it as a crime. Recently, in the infamous Soti lynchings-in which Nabaraj BK and his five ...

Caste discrimination remains a persistent issue in Nepal, and members of the Dalit community are still victims of many abuses ...

Rem Bishwakarma, president of the Jagaran Media Centre, a Kathmandu-based group fighting for Dalit rights, said that despite reforms the caste system was still deeply rooted in Nepali society.

Directed by activist Shanta Nepali, the show will consist of 12 ... "The exclusionary caste system is real. Caste-based discrimination is real. Dalit and their lived reality, indigenous people ...

Due to the caste system in Nepal, education has always been an elusive dream for my family. The caste system has plagued the socioeconomic life of millions of low-caste families in Nepal for almost ...

Speaker 1 at townhall: As a Nepali, Hindu Dalit, I have experienced caste ... and a historian at Columbia University and she has written a book about caste. Anupama Rao: It is a system based on ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Purnima Dhavan, a history professor at the University of Washington who specializes in the social and cultural history of early modern south Asia, can help explain the complex caste system.

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly ...

Any number of random metrics could be used to divide and rank people in a caste system—ethnicity, lineage, religion, language. In our case, the early colonists took otherwise neutral ...

Representative image (Picture credit: Copilot AI image) The caste system has played a decisive role in the complex social structure of India since ancient times. In ancient and medieval society ...