The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

(RNS) — At the crux of the HAF lawsuit is the question of whether caste is inherently tied to Hindu dharma. (RNS) — The Hindu American Foundation has filed a complaint against the state of California, ...

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...

(RNS) — Last week, a federal district judge ruled against two California State University professors who claimed the university’s policy barring discrimination on the basis of caste violates the U.S.

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

OAK FOREST, ILL. — A blaze that killed a couple and their 3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient Hindu ...

Why Bhumjaithai’s Grip on Power Is More Fragile Than It Looks Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday intended to outlaw discrimination on the basis of ancestry by adding “caste” to the list of protected categories under California’s civil rights ...

Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...

Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith's rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar will determine whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power next month. More than two-thirds of ...

On Monday, India marks 75 years since its independence from British rule. Growing up in Orange County, I was taught that observing Hindu religious traditions made me a proud Indian. My family is ...