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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

California Senate Bill 403 would include “caste” under the protected category of “ancestry” in the state’s anti-discrimination statutes. If enacted, this bill would be the first state-wide prohibition ...

California lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a centuries-old system that assigns social status based on one’s birth. The first-of-its-kind bill, now headed to ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that ...

Annihilation of caste is impossible without revolution, and revolution is not possible without annihilation of caste. This is ...

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 ...

Few social systems illustrate this phenomenon more clearly than the caste system, one of history’s most enduring hierarchies. Deeply embedded in Indian society, caste consequently dictates the course ...

(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. CNN — (CNN) — ...