SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has approached a US appeals court, arguing that California’s civil rights regulator has wrongly linked caste discrimination to Hinduism and ...

Is China operating a modern-day caste-like system? Viral claims on social media have sparked a global debate, highlighting ...

The Maranalloor police have registered a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, based on a complaint by a bus attendant of a private school in ...

Missionary and early colonial reports show that Shudras in 19th-century South India were widely educated. This is seen as proof that the pre-Macaulay education system in India was open and not ...

The Communist Party of India has requested the government to continue issuing certificates based on mother’s caste to all deserving students in Puducherry. In a release, party secretary A. M. Saleem ...

Statues of Shivaji are rising everywhere. The founder of the Maratha empire who fought against the Mughal dynasty is now a symbol for nationalists remaking the country. Statues of Shivaji are rising ...

The caste system in South Asia is a durable framework of social stratification rooted in ancient varna and jati traditions. It organises individuals into hereditary groups, prescribing occupation, ...

Publicly identifying their faith can lead to consequences for lower-caste Christians and those in religiously hostile states. Ravi Kishore, a third-generation Christian from the southern Indian state ...

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It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, positing that they used a pulley and counterweight system to erect it so ...