Brown University has become the first Ivy League school to explicitly ban caste discrimination throughout its campus. The institution announced on Thursday that it included caste in its ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

Back in February, the City Council voted to make Seattle the first city in the country to ban discrimination based on a person’s caste. Caste is like a social or economic class, but it’s hereditary.

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she "otherwise loved very much" — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

The prevalence of caste system in people’s minds still looms over our so-called modern world. Despite living in an era of education and technology, parents in general still believe in maintaining ...