Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

People are placed into fixed social groups in a caste system under a hierarchy that often relies on discriminatory notions of ritual “purity” and “contamination.” The Indian caste system ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical ... for scheduled castes and tribes, the lowest in the caste hierarchy, in 1950. In 1989, quotas were extended to include a grouping called ...

America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that's ...