Sen. Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise in the Democratic Party has generated an endless stream of articles and conversations in the United States about her multifaceted identity as a black and Indian ...

The release of a Bollywood film chronicling the lives of two 19th-century anti-caste reformers in India has been delayed following protests from upper caste groups who have accused it of defaming ...

Over the last 40 years, as millions of Indians have immigrated to the U.S., many for tech jobs, they’ve brought their caste system with them. The ancient Indian caste system has four tiers with ...

Why has a film about India's two revolutionary thinkers upset the self-proclaimed caretakers of the Brahmin community? Did ...

Apr. 24—One of the best of many excellent new books about race in America is Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Her main thesis is that racism in America is part of a larger ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...

(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. (CNN) — For ...