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 ...

Low-caste Hindu – dalit or the oppressed – women wait for medical treatment at a homage site in Mumbai, December 6, 2006. More than 200,000 Hindus at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy gathered in ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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), ...

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 ...