The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

Seattle became the first city in the U.S. to outlaw caste-based discrimination against immigrants from stigmatized groups in South Asia’s traditional social hierarchy. The ordinance, adding caste to ...

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

A socio-economic survey initiated by Karnataka state in southern India has become controversial after the state prevented Christians from entering their caste, following opposition from Hindu groups.

The family members are Dalits, the modern name for the Hindu castes once known as untouchable. On April 29, 2018, the family members and many others converted to Buddhism in protest, claiming that the ...

It has been a busy week for America's Supreme Court, as it returned rulings on cases regarding not only gay marriage but also affirmative action (to use the American euphemism) in the public ...

Jainism is an offshoot of Hinduism that came about in the sixth century B.C. as a reaction to the Hindu caste system. Its progenitor was a man known as Mahavira. Legend has it that he was born in a ...

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(MENAFN- IANS) Bengaluru, Sep 23 (IANS) A Karnataka BJP delegation met Backward Classes Commission Chairman Madhusudan R. Naik on Tuesday and demanded the removal of the Christian tag assigned to ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

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