Supreme Court allows a Puducherry minor to receive an SC certificate based on her mother’s Adi Dravida caste, keeping the larger legal question on caste inheritance open.

To help combat caste-based discrimination, the Indian government saves spots at the best Indian universities for lower-caste students, who often take that opportunity and turn it into a tech job in ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South ...

This story appeared as The Big Blind Spot in Outlook’s December 11 issue, Dravida, which captures these tensions that shape ...

Days after Saksham Tate (20) was beaten to death in Maharashtra's Nanded over an inter-caste relationship, his lover, Anchal ...

Being born in India means inheriting a place in an ancient social system which will dominate much of your life, from where you can live to who you can marry. Now, the government wants to know more ...

In a shocking act of defiance, a Maharashtra woman wed her murdered boyfriend's body amid family arrests over inter-caste ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, from which this essay is adapted; ...

A groundbreaking US survey revealed widespread caste discrimination among Dalits, challenging the notion that it's confined to South Asia. Activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan spearheaded the research, ...

This article is part two of a four-part series. Read part one, part three and part four. This series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. "Untouchables" from India, now more often ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), on 30 April approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census — a surprising decision that the ...