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 ...

Chalam has advocated for caste enumeration in the population census. Mr. Chalam was speaking at the ‘caste census - ...

IIT-Delhi launches investigation into a controversial conference on caste and race after complaints about its content and ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

In June 2020, news broke that the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) had sued technology giant Cisco Systems for alleged caste discrimination by two managers against a Dalit employee.

How is caste discrimination observed and documented on campus? How much can the new UGC rules, now at the centre of a row, ...

Mahatma Gandhi has insisted that social renewal must begin with reforming caste structures. His words have argued that ...

(Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill that would have banned caste discrimination was seen as "heartbreaking" by the legislation's advocates while being welcomed by those who ...

(RNS) — At the crux of the HAF lawsuit is the question of whether caste is inherently tied to Hindu dharma. (RNS) — The Hindu American Foundation has filed a complaint against the state of California, ...

The trigger was a now-stayed January 13 notification by the UGC introducing the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education ...

OAK FOREST, ILL. — A blaze that killed a couple and their 3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient Hindu ...

(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, ...