STORY: The move addresses an issue important to the area's South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu communities. India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social ...

An Indian father hired a hitman to kill his newlywed daughter’s husband because he belonged to a lower caste, court records claim. Pranay Perumalla, the husband of Amrutha Varshini, was killed less ...

In the caste system of India, the family you're born into can determine a lot - where you live, who you marry, the jobs you'll have. Sujatha Gidla was born in untouchable - the lowest caste in Indian ...

In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy. Equality Labs, an organization of Delit people ...

Mention the word “caste” in the United States, and what immediately comes to mind is India, with its five major castes: Brahmins (the hierarchy), Kshatryas (warriors and rulers), Vaishyas (tradesmen), ...

(Reuters) - Toronto's school board has become the first in Canada to recognize that caste discrimination exists in the city's schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a ...

THIS refers to the letter ‘Discrimination against low-caste Hindus’ (Oct 20) by Vijesh Kumar. The worst sufferers as a result of partition are not the Hindus or the Muslims, in general, but the lower ...

A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest Dalit caste has been elected as the country's 14th president. A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest ...