The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

(RNS) — Last week, a federal district judge ruled against two California State University professors who claimed the university’s policy barring discrimination on the basis of caste violates the U.S.

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...

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Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...

Mina Anand is a Bangalore-based lawyer and author. This is the 21st Century. One would think that the evils of caste, creed, race would be relics of the past. Yet – oppression, racism, exploitation – ...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill, opens new tab that would have banned caste discrimination was seen as "heartbreaking" by the legislation's advocates while being ...

For centuries, what we now call Hinduism was never a single religion. It was a civilisation organised through caste. Each ...

The Socio, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) survey, the first of its kind conducted by the State government, has thrown up interesting questions related to caste as an ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

Nuns from a group of Dalit Christians, or India’s lowest caste who converted to Christianity, protest in New Delhi. AP Photo/Gurinder Osan The California State University system, America’s largest ...