The caste system started as a social construct created over 3,000 years ago in South Asia. People are born into distinct groups, that came with their own social hierarchy and political and ...

Purnima Dhavan, a history professor at the University of Washington who specializes in the social and cultural history of early modern south Asia, can help explain the complex caste system.

What is caste? A centuries-old class system in South Asia, determined by birth. People in the lowest social and religious class were long called “untouchables.” The concept has been in the U.S. since ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities.

Social, economic and political status in this pernicious system is tied ... Most socioeconomic elites in South Asia, regardless of religion, are affiliated with upper-caste groups, and the vast ...

Caste discrimination remains one of the least visible yet most pernicious forms of anti-Asian hate in the United States, and we — scholars of South Asia, teaching in U.S. universities and public ...

Most Americans are unaware of the caste distinctions in South Asia, and the Cisco lawsuit served ... unfairly targets Hindus because the caste system is most commonly associated with Hinduism.

It’s a system called Brahmanism ... but also it was the largest mobilization of its kind outside of South Asia for caste-oppressed people. And I think that what was incredible is that it ...

Caste has long been a faultline in South Asia. Wahab’s proposal has amplified ... state where people are trying to pretend the caste system doesn’t exist.” California officials had ...