A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be ...

Oliver Cromwell Cox, a Marxist economist and author of Caste, Class, and Race (1948), strongly rejected the notion of caste to define American race relations.

Jeffrey Brown: In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr., visiting India and seeing its caste system, realized he was a kind of untouchable in his own land. It's one of many stories told in the new book ...

PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit held that California State University professors’ challenge to the inclusion of “caste” as a protected class in the university’s anti-discrimination and harassment ...

The city of Seattle became the first U.S. jurisdiction to include caste as a protected class in ordinance CB12051, “An Ordinance Relating to Human Rights; Including Protections Against ...

Classism, like caste discrimination, is a very real aspect of diversity equity and inclusion, one that needs addressing as much as racism, sexism and all other forms of inequity based on one's ...

Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is in theatres. It follows a lower-caste boy’s struggles as he falls in love with an upper-class woman.

Article 15 of the Indian Constitution minces no words with its prohibition of discrimination “against any citizen on grounds ...

Siddhant Chaturvedi, Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is a compelling, emotionally rich film that elevates the template of a love ...

The BAFTA-nominated film "The White Tiger" tells the story of Balram, a poor but shrewd young driver in India battling against the country’s caste system. It’s based on the 2008 Booker Prize ...

The allegation of witchcraft is put to a new-found effective use to repress and punish; the worst affected are those widowed, ...

Siddhant Chaturvedi, Triptii DimriRating: 3 stars An instructive scene in Dhadak 2 is when two families are in the drawing ...