In 2015, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a young activist, scholar, and co-founder of Equality Labs — a dalit civil rights organisation — spearheaded the first nationwide survey on caste discrimination in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

In recent years, a number of colleges and universities have added caste to their list of prohibited classifications under their anti-discrimination policies. Two Hindu professors at a public ...

The Supreme Court, in the recent case of Chinthada Anand v. The State of Andhra Pradeshand others, ruled that individuals who ...

The death of a Dalit dental student in Kerala ahead of Ambedkar Jayanti once again underscores the entrenched discrimination, ...

The 22-year-old Bachelor of Dental Surgery student jumped to his death from the college building, with his family alleging ...

Vinod Suryavanshi, who made a brief appearance in Panchayat, has now the harsh realities of his upbringing, speaking openly ...

Kannur , The management of Kannur Dental College, where a BDS student died after allegedly jumping from a building, on Sunday said his death was not due to caste discrimination but linked to a loan ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. CNN — (CNN) — ...