UPDATE: On Feb. 21, 2023, Seattle became the first city in the nation to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, with a 6-1 majority vote at the city council. We are finally here. After decades of ...

The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by ...

A court in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced three men to death for their involvement in the 1981 Dehuli massacre, where 24 Dalits ...

Chennai: Over 20 people were injured and a Dalit family’s house was allegedly torched in a clash between members of the Most Backward Community (MBC) and Scheduled Caste (SC) community in Pudukottai’s ...

Can the law deny protection against caste-based discrimination simply because an individual has changed religion?

Even though Californa holds the title as one of the nation’s most populous and progressive U.S. states, its South Asian residents frequently struggle under an insidious form of discrimination based on ...

Stone-throwing protesters clashed with police firing tear gas in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state on Sunday, the latest caste violence over demands for preferential treatment for jobs ...

Activists protesting against the gang rape and killing of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district shout slogans and beat an effigy of Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Education alone will not lift millions of lower-caste Indians out of poverty and oppression as long as land in the country is in the hands of a powerful few, ...