When Indians migrated around the world, they took caste with them, just as B.R. Ambedkar, India’s foremost political theorist, anti-caste thinker, and the drafter of its constitution, had predicted.

Even though Dalit self-assertion has come a long way since the 1980s, Dalit voices remain subdued in mainstream Indian media and fiction. India’s upper-caste elite remain exclusive producers ...

Whereas in the U.S. they may rightly protest against any racial or religious discrimination as Indians, the case at Google shows they mostly fall silent when it comes to caste discrimination.

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

The model minority ideal, created by “upper”-caste Indians with more than a little help from white Americans who first coined the term to describe Japanese immigrants, suffocates all other modes of ...

May 26, 2023; What We Can Learn From the Surge of Far-Right Violence in India What We Can Learn From the Surge of Far-Right Violence in India Too many upper-caste Indians and white Americans think ...

They said that one should marry in one’s own caste, because it helped in the adjustment of the spouses. One major problem they pointed out in the case of an intercaste marriage was in the symmetrical ...

Indians in the U.S. surely have experiences with American racism, but if Indian-Americans privileged by the caste system take on liberal politics, they often do so without acknowledging the role ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one's birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim ...

Many consider themselves ‘upper castes’ even though a section of them believe their ancestors were the early Christians who came from the Middle East and settled in Kerala around 2 CE.

The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name.

HADID: Ray says that's because ideas of what Indians eat largely come from upper-caste Hindus, including Brahmins. They're at the top of the caste system.