The bench headed by Justice PK Mishra cited the Constitution (Scheduled Caste) Order, 1950, which mandates that “no person ...

Supreme Court rules only Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists can claim Scheduled Caste status, barring others post-conversion.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Can someone please explain to me the Hindi Caste system? Is it really perpetuated by that otherwise beautiful religion? In my quest for knowledge that I will probably never use I have purchased some ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...