OAK FOREST, ILL. — A blaze that killed a couple and their 3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient ...

The caste system stems from an ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda, which outlines four social categories, including priests, warriors, merchants, and laborers, all of whom stem from a higher being.

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 outlaw ...

Discover the genetic origins of the people of India, including the ancient ANI and ASI populations, and the impact of caste.

Hindu caste is an artificial division between members of the same race. And so we send missionaries to India to abolish caste. We are apt to despise and ridicule what we are not familiar with.

In many ways, they said, the legacy of the caste system had already shaped the trajectory of their lives, because it limits the jobs and education available to them both in India and now the U.S.

Pew argues that “India’s caste system, an ancient social hierarchy with origins in Hindu writings, continues to fracture society.” But caste has been defined narrowly and interpreted broadly.

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 ...

About 50,000 Indian low-caste Hindus and nomadic tribespeople converted to Buddhism before a vast crowd on Sunday in the hope of escaping the rigidity of the ancient Hindu caste system and finding ...

Maya thought she left caste-based discrimination behind when she came to the U.S. from India to pursue her studies. She was shocked to discover she was wrong, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.