Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

Like every society all over the world, we have a reality persisting and affecting our lives for centuries, which many of us ...

An Indian court has denied Christians of Dalit origin legal protections meant for lower caste people, saying a person who ...

India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and ...

An audit of past schemes is needed to ensure that affirmative action benefits the real marginalised. Unlike previous govts, ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Nepal, May 12 -- based discrimination is so entrenched in Nepal, even the country's legal system fails to see it as a crime.

India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely ...

India will include caste details in its next census, a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...