For generations, the first question in an arranged marriage was rarely about personality, ambitions or emotional ...

Religious conversion or inter-caste marriage does not alter a person’s caste by birth, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, a decision Christian leaders say could strengthen the case of Dalit ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

The top court in southern Indian Tamil Nadu state has ruled that persons marrying under the Christian personal law should be considered to have converted to Christianity and abandoned their ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

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 ...

To a 21st-century reader, Rajani (1877) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, at first, comes across as a novel on caste and ...

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 ...

THANE: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her father in Kalyan in what police suspect to be a case of caste-based violence and an honour killing. The accused, who had been ...