After reading the Supreme Court decision in Chintada Anand v. State of AP, I am impelled to doff my hat to the invisible resilience of the caste system. There is something deeply ironical in ...

California state senator Aisha Wahab talks to TIME about the threats her office has received after introducing the bill.

Mass Line state secretary Potu Ranga Rao has called on the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that denies SC/ST caste ...

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 ...

Activists are calling for the immediate implementation of the UGC's equity regulations aimed at tackling caste-based discrimination in higher education. The regulations, which have been stayed by the ...

The court’s reasoning on conversion and Scheduled Caste status rests on a set of constitutional and statutory rules that tie ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made California the first U.S. state to outlaw caste-based discrimination. Caste is a division of people related to birth or descent. Those at ...

Supreme Court Big Decision on SC Status: The apex court clarified that the constitutional provision for Scheduled Castes is limited to Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.

The Supreme Court order holding that professing a religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism through conversion removes statutory protections and benefits available to a Scheduled Caste person ...