From lynchings and social boycotts to a historic caste census decision, 2025 showed that caste continues to shape violence, ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday said the country needs the party’s ideology rooted in the ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based ...

New Study examines the prevalence of caste-based discrimination in India, why mainstream psychology often fails to capture ...

Civic behaviour is shaped by a society conditioned to outsourcing the labour of cleaning to lower castes and women.

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 ...

Shalini Sharma does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

(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, ...