A bill that would make California the first state to ban caste discrimination cleared another hurdle this week when it was unanimously approved by the state Assembly Judiciary Committee, with one ...

State Senate lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include protections against discrimination based on a person’s perceived caste. The ...

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker criticizes RSS for wanting to remove secularism and socialism from Indian Constitution, warns against divisive agenda.

In late January, California State University added caste to its non-discrimination policy. With more than 437,000 students and 44,000 employees statewide, it is the largest academic institution to ...

An octogenarian woman from a village in Deogarh district was allegedly refused cremation by her fellow community members ...

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities ...

Caste: The Origins of Our ... Even the ending "Awakening" section, couched as a look forward, is depicted less of an articulation of the possibilities of a world without caste, ...

A group of caste equity leaders have been fasting for more than two weeks to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would make caste discrimination illegal in California.

The Supreme Court will hear a plea on July 22 regarding guidelines on obtaining OBC certificates for a child of a single ...

Kerala will have 164 forward caste communities, including 15 Christian communities, which are out of the ambit of any form of caste-based reservation. The list attains significance in the wake of ...

India, April 12 -- 'Commitment' to the backwards communities is being promised and executed while ostracising the forward castes, which has not gone down well in the party.

A bill that would make California the first state to ban caste discrimination cleared another hurdle this week when it was unanimously approved by the state Assembly Judiciary Committee, with one ...