Upper-caste elites struggled to santise the undertones of female sexuality and desire in these tunes, which women continue to ...

The Art of Living founder has put caste reconciliation on his public agenda. He organised the "Truth and Reconciliation" Conference in New Delhi to reconcile Dalits with upper caste Hindus and end ...

Under British rule, the notion took hold that the only legitimate priests in Hinduism are upper-caste sacred-thread Sanskrit-knowing Brahmins. This is absolutely not true. Hinduism has many groups and ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

Seattle became the first city in the U.S. to outlaw caste-based discrimination against immigrants from stigmatized groups in South Asia's traditional social hierarchy. The ordinance, adding caste to ...