When the earliest form of caste was created in ancient India, it had roots in religion. In the 21st century, it lives on as a ...

A Chinese man explains China's hukou household registration system, which many describe as "caste-like" for creating a ...

New York State lawmakers recently rejected a bill that would have added “caste” to the state’s anti-discrimination code. Had it passed, it would have made New York the first state—following a failed ...

New Delhi: We all know China as the world's manufacturing hub and a socialist nation run by the Communist party. But a serious allegation is now doing the rounds on the internet: that China has a ...

Recently, some Indian social media users claimed that they had made a "discovery" that China, like India, supposedly has "a caste system." They shared memes about ancient China's "four occupations" ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Caste shapes every aspect of Indian culture and culture. As Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan writes in The Trauma of Caste, this “system of exclusion…ranks people at birth affects over ...

(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. The Indian ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to conduct a caste census to enumerate the proportional share of different castes in India’s population. This marks a significant shift in the position of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1995, then–Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger testified in Congress about ...