China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse and a socialist state governed by a communist party, is being accused online of having a birth-based caste system that shapes access to education, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

Many Americans would be appalled to think that anything like caste could exist in a country allegedly founded on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. After all, India’s atrocious caste system ...

No matter how elite their college or how lucrative their careers, those born into a low caste remain stigmatized for life. Caste is also always hierarchical: As long as it exists, so does the division ...

Los Angeles-based actor Kapil Talwalkar is making his TheatreWorks debut. A native of Cupertino, Talwalkar recalls one of the ...

Several posts on X claim that China, too, has hierarchical social systems that marginalise some sections of society. What are ...

CHENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...