There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

Faith communities can work together to end systems of discrimination that carry from generation to generation.

Caste encourages exclusion, which creates or worsens inequality for those who find themselves at the bottom of its hierarchy. Within the Indian caste system, occupations were historically inherited.

For many Indian Americans, particularly Hindus, caste was a burden of the past in a backwater village in rural India, or an idea invented by the British; it didn’t exist in America.

Gill responded with a tweet that drew immediate criticism: “America is the ‘land of opportunity’ precisely because we DON’T have a caste system.

The truth is farmworkers have always been on the frontlines of justice, feeding this country while being treated as expendable. What we need isn’t “modernization.” We need liberation. A real ...

I was born into the varna of Shudras, the Indian caste for servile laborers -- a whisker-thin notch above the untouchables. Of course, I was actually born in swampy South Georgia, not Mumbai.

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...

A young IT professional was murdered in a suspected caste -motivated “ honour killing ” in India on Sunday evening. Kavin ...

What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they ...