The Congress party has launched a double attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with both Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun ...

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday reiterated the party's demand for a nationwide caste-based census and the ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fully committed to a caste census, calling it the first step towards ensuring respect and equal ...

RJD MLA Munna Yadav has once again sparked controversy with a caste-based remark about Bihar’s politics. Yadav declared that ...

In ‘Hostile Homelands’, South African journalist Azad Essa explores the origins of and connections between Zionism and ...

The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name.

Caste-away: India's caste system may be impossible to dismantle, but Yashica Dutt wants to try Living a lie and “passing” as an “upper” caste Hindu opened doors, Yashica Dutt discovered ...

The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name.

People from upper-caste backgrounds have generally been anti-reservation, claiming that reservations dilute merit, although the Supreme Court of India recently upheld the constitutional validity ...

A bill to ban caste discrimination in California brings a global conflict to the Legislature. While many South Asian groups support the measure, some say it could backfire.

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one's birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim ...

There's a simple reason for that, says author Shahu Patole, a 62-year-old retired civil servant and a Dalit. "To upper-caste Hindus," Patole says, "we were not even humans.