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 ...

If the administration's birthright citizenship executive order is implemented, "there will be a new kind of stratification" ...

Caste discrimination and racism are major problems in Nepal. Despite having legal recourse against race and caste ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

The system, adopted by American missionary James Curtis Hepburn in the late 19th century, uses spellings close to English. It has been widely used in Japan, such as on station and road signs as ...

She chose to speak in English to a Hindi-speaking audience ... New Delhi: Only in India does a panel discussion about how to break the caste system turn into one where every panellist concludes ...