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 ...

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 ...

Mysuru (Karnataka), Apr 20 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said the principles of the 12th-century social reformer Basavanna will remain relevant as long as the rigid caste ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The devotees rushed to collect soil from the ground the man had just walked on, thousands thronging to the front of a venue ...

There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

As I write this letter, the stock market continues to crash as does my retirement savings. Yet what have our two Republican senators done in the meantime? They passed a gimmicky budget reconciliation ...

David Brooks’ call for disrupting the caste system (“Reforms need to overcome the new segregation” Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 22) will be even more difficult after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For more than a half-century, a mysterious caste system has shadowed the life of every North Korean. It can decide whether they will live in the gated compounds of the ...

(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 — (CNN) — ...