Caste denotes a system of rigid social stratification into ranked groups defined by descent and occupation. Under various caste systems throughout the world, caste divisions also dominate in ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

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 exclusionary caste system is real. Caste-based discrimination is real. Dalit and their lived reality, indigenous people and their struggles, LGBTQI+ and their defiance, people with ...

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 ...