The thorough and comprehensive Burns Halperin Report 2022 awakens the somnolent to America’s caste substructure. The report defines female as “any artist who identifies herself as a woman.” It defines ...

Virupaksha actor Ravi Krishna has alleged caste-based bias in Telugu cinema, claiming he lost film projects after being asked to share documents like his PAN and Aadhaar cards. The actor opened up ...

Hindus were taken aback when giants like Apple Inc. and the California State University system adopted policies about caste-based discrimination (CBD). They did not think or hear of CBD or practice or ...

Carmel Christy K J has previously received Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship and Charles Wallace Trust Short-Term Grant to conduct research. She is currently an affiliated fellow at the ...

(RNS) What Aslan should have done is give voice to the scores of contemporary Hindu spiritual leaders who reject the notion that Hinduism or its scriptures sanction a birth-based hierarchy or ...

Section 703 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Why not include “caste” in this list? The question has been asked for several ...

In 1934, 17 German legal scholars gathered in Berlin to create the legal framework for an Aryan nation. They began by asking how the Americans had done it. The U.S. was centuries ahead, in terms of ...

When Prem Pariyar moved from his home in Nepal to the U.S. in 2015, he expected a reprieve from the discrimination and violence he and his family experienced in Nepal due to their caste status.

A meritocracy holds that if you work hard enough, you can succeed in life, regardless of race, religion, gender or social status. But a new study from UC Berkeley suggests that, despite egalitarian ...

The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes ...