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 ...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says caste discrimination can end if caste is erased from the mind, calling for societal change.

Speaking at an RSS centenary event, Mohan Bhagwat says mindset change is key to ending caste-based discrimination ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public ...

UGC enforces new regulations against caste discrimination in higher education, mandating equity committees and compliance to ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

(RNS) — The politics around California’s recently proposed legislation banning caste-based discrimination have become contentious. They shouldn’t be. Caste discrimination remains one of the least ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill highly watched by the South Asian community that would have banned discrimination on the basis of caste — a system of social hierarchy that ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

Current Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy recently went into a ...