Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...

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; ...

If we stand next to one another, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and I look alike. We both have Indian immigrant roots and are the products of marriages between Hindu fathers and Christian mothers. We share ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill highly watched by the South Asian community that would have banned discrimination on the basis of caste — a system of social hierarchy that ...

“Once we win California, the nation is next,” Thenmozhi Soundararajan says. She is an activist who is fighting for a bill that aims to ban caste discrimination in California, which Governor Newsom has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While the NFHS was conducted with the primary objective of collecting data on reproductive status, it has generated considerable data on caste ...