Caste enumeration will be included in the upcoming national census. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this decision in a briefing. The BJP criticised Congress for historically opposing the ...

The malaise of casteism took the lives of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi. Their parents have pleaded with the Supreme Court of India to treat this malaise on campuses. If they needed medical advice on ...

Being born in India means inheriting a place in an ancient social system which will dominate much of your life, from where you can live to who you can marry. Now, the government wants to know more ...

To help combat caste-based discrimination, the Indian government saves spots at the best Indian universities for lower-caste students, who often take that opportunity and turn it into a tech job in ...

The California State University announced it has added caste as a protected category in its systemwide anti-discrimination policy, a hard-fought policy deeply meaningful to Dalit students of South ...

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made several costly miscalculations in this year’s general election. He overestimated his own popularity. He underestimated the extent of economic angst, ...

The Equality Act should be amended to take caste discrimination into account, and a change to law floated 12 years ago finally implemented, a Wolverhampton MP has said. The caste system, developed in ...

Nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S., most of whom trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, according to the group South Asian Americans Leading ...