But Soundararajan recalled something a worker told her, “why would I even report to HR when they probably don’t even know where India is on a map ... South Asian caste system that while ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian ...

where the discovery of human faeces thrown in a drinking water tank meant for Dalit communities exposed an insidious system of caste segregation in the village; and the third from Uttarakhand ...

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.

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Organized by the All India Dalit Women’s Rights Forum, the march gave Dalit women, who belong to the lowest stratum of a hierarchical caste system in India, an opportunity to speak about issues ...

amy qin So the caste system is one of the oldest systems of social stratification and it began in India thousands of years ago. It has its roots in Hinduism. And essentially, it’s a rigid social ...

Any number of random metrics could be used to divide and rank people in a caste system—ethnicity, lineage, religion, language. In our case, the early colonists took otherwise neutral ...