Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The University Grants Commission (UGC), on January 13, ...

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

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

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 ...

Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, from which this essay is adapted; ...

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California survived in committee Wednesday, July 5, despite months of opposition organized by groups that alleged the bill would unfairly target South Asians.

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

A report today says that Apple is ahead of most large companies in tackling a form of discrimination which originates in India but has affected employee recruitment in Silicon Valley: the caste system ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While the NFHS was conducted with the primary objective of collecting data on reproductive status, it has generated considerable data on caste ...