India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...

The non-Brahmin movement of Periyar mobilised backward classes politically, but appears to have done little to undermine ...

Yashica Dutt, author of “Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System,” reads an excerpt to an audience at Northwestern University in Evanston on May 1. Dutt also spoke at ...

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.

The caste system in India is not just about social hierarchy—it is also about social and psychological control. It thrives because people believe in it, even when it hurts them (Jost, 2020).

Writer Martha Ann Overland reports from New Delhi that though India is driven by a rigid caste system, she, as an American living there, is fighting to prevent caste divisions in her New Delhi ...