The debate over how, or even whether, to fight discrimination based on caste — an ancient social ranking system associated with the Hindu religion — is heating up in California. As Governor Newsom is ...

India's ancient discriminatory caste system could be making an impact in the U.S., and now some areas are banning the practice.

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to ...

Castes that evolved from ancient India’s tribes are the basis for the Hindu society that binds most of India’s population. Castes and Hindu society are inseparable. Hence the castes reared ...

Seattle became the first American city to explicitly ban discrimination on the basis of caste, a system of social hierarchy in India.

A fierce opponent of the Hindu caste system, Ambedkar encouraged many Dalits, members of the lowest caste, to embrace Buddhism to escape caste discrimination.

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one's birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status.

America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that's ...

Mashed blood, dried squirrel, spicy fish eggs: A writer from an oppressed Hindu caste publishes a cookbook that he hopes will shatter the notion of a mostly vegetarian India.

THE purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a caste system already exists in North America, and to consider the possibility that the system may, in the future, be extended and organized ...