Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The University Grants Commission (UGC), on January 13, ...

(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill highly watched by the South Asian community that would have banned discrimination on the basis of caste — a system of social hierarchy that ...

Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, from which this essay is adapted; ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

UGC enforces new regulations against caste discrimination in higher education, mandating equity committees and compliance to ...

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California survived in committee Wednesday, July 5, despite months of opposition organized by groups that alleged the bill would unfairly target South Asians.

New Delhi: In a historic shift, the Indian government has given the green light to conduct a caste census alongside the upcoming nationwide population count. This marks the return of caste enumeration ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While the NFHS was conducted with the primary objective of collecting data on reproductive status, it has generated considerable data on caste ...