The origins of the caste system in India date back 3,000 years. A proposed ordinance in Seattle would add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. ... land-owning Jat caste. ...

Off and on throughout India’s history, the country’s caste system has provoked violence over rights and opportunities. One such conflict was resolved Monday, with the leaders of a protest ...

So, what the Jat and Patidar protests seem to show is this: Using quotas as a sticking plaster over the wound of inequality is no substitute for real policy to end discrimination, including the ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one's birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim ...

India's complex caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. ... At least 18 people have been killed in violent protests by the Jat community in Haryana.

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one’s birth. ... land-owning Jat caste. ...

Protesters from India's Jat agricultural caste block a highway linking New Delhi to Rohtak in the state of Haryana. The government has sent columns of troops to the area.

This week in India the capital Delhi faced a huge water shortage after protestors blocked the main canal into the city. The protestors were members of the relatively affluent Jat caste who are ...

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 ...

Sasha Sabherwal, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, delivered a talk entitled “Collective Fictions of Caste: Unsettling Caste, Gender, and Religion in the Sikh Diaspora ...

India's complex caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. ... At least 18 people have been killed in violent protests by the Jat community in Haryana.