Bezwada Wilson speaks to Outlook about manual scavenging system and how it has become a new form of casteism and modern ...

Caste identity in our times is not framed within the broader framework of the caste-system but around the newer aspirational ...

People from the lower rungs of India's strict social hierarchy say they're trapped doing jobs like cleaning sewers because of historical discrimination.At least 77% of India's 38,000 sewer and septic ...

It is simple to utter, \"The system is broken.\" It is more difficult to pose the question, \"What have I done to fix it?\" ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.

According to modern research (ref. Caste System in India, Wikipedia) the caste system was a British perversion of India’s traditional social categories, influenced by the Spanish “casta” or ...

After India gained independence in 1947, its new constitution formally banned caste discrimination, but prejudice in South Asian diaspora communities is far from gone.

Earlier this month, the California Assembly passed S.B. 403, the first state bill in the country to include caste under the scope of anti-discrimination law. The bill has been sent to Gov. Gavin ...