Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing ... wrote that America was ruled by a triangle of unelected elites: wealthy corporate ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly ...