When the earliest form of caste was created in ancient India, it had roots in religion. In the 21st century, it lives on as a ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

No matter how elite their college or how lucrative their careers, those born into a low caste remain stigmatized for life. Caste is also always hierarchical: As long as it exists, so does the division ...

CHENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his ...

RANCHI: A fresh political controversy has erupted in Jharkhand over the state government's directive requiring ration ...

"Two things are new in the love jihad propaganda. One, the replacement of the abhorred Dalit man by the feared Muslim man.

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 ...