It’s easy to think of the Varna system as something rigid, something that divides us into neat categories based on our birth.

India has the longest history of affirmative action programs in the world and they have become the center of heated ...

Following suit with other cities in California, Anderson has officially condemned discrimination based on caste. The effort ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion people have, from work to marriage.

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

The count likely will lead to demands to reserve more government jobs, college admissions and elected offices for lower and ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.

India’s current policy caps quotas at 50%, with 27% reserved for OBCs. Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and is critical to Indian life and politics. There are hundreds of ...