Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

The inspiring story of Shailaja Paik who fought against poverty and caste to win the MacArthur "genius" grant.

A Google search for basic information on India's caste system lists many sites that, with varying degrees of emphasis, outline three popular tropes on the phenomenon. First, the caste system is a ...

India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...

6 Although untouchability was abolished under India's constitution in 1950, and numerous laws have since been enacted to tackle caste-related problems of bonded labor, manual scavenging ...

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the nationalist group RSS, urged the Hindu community to bridge its caste differences ahead of the ...

Critics say the BJP fears that a caste count could spark more demands for quotas Major opposition and regional leaders have met India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to argue in favour of counting ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) — Not far from the place I once ... It matters whether you are a man or a woman, whether you belong to the untouchable caste. It matters where you live -- in a remote ...

The PDP and People's Conference have expressed concerns over Jammu and Kashmir government's resolution to restore statehood without addressing Article 370. PDP's Waheed Parra sees this as a ...

pre-partitioned India (which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh). These immigrants typically were not upper-caste Hindus (who were restricted by caste norms from traveling abroad at the ...

The ‘36 Biradari’ concept signifies a broad social classification of Haryana's castes and communities. Here's how the BJP ...

And even though modern India is changing, caste discrimination refuses to go away. Paik faced prejudice both as a Dalit and a woman. She credits her parents, especially her father, for helping her ...