Speakers discussing the proposed ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws at Seattle City Hall, on Feb. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/John Froschauer) ...

The caste system, a social hierarchy most prominent in South Asian communities, relegates some into lower classes where they face violence, slurs, social isolation and a lack of mobility.

India outlawed caste-based discrimination decades ago, but violence against Dalits—members of the lowest level of the caste system—is still pervasive, and activists say the growing South Asian ...

The concept of the South Asian caste system has been in the U.S. since at least 1965 when a federal immigration law overhaul resulted in immigrants from more Asian countries receiving visas. But ...

It sparked dialogue in South Asian communities about the lingering effects of the caste system and how they present in American life. Many who identify as caste-oppressed went public with their ...

Many South Asian communities also choose to only socialize with members of their own caste, and marriages tend to remain within caste systems, too. SEE MORE: Biden pledges U.S. will work with ...

California’s legislation targeted the caste system in South Asian and Hindu immigrant communities by adding caste as a protected class to the state’s existing anti-discrimination laws.

Some South Asian Americans say that the proposal unfairly targets Hindus, because the caste system is most commonly associated with Hinduism.

The concept of the South Asian caste system has been in the U.S. since at least 1965, when a federal immigration law overhaul resulted in immigrants from more Asian countries receiving visas.

The history of colourism can be traced back to the ideology of the Indian caste system, an occupational division of people, which still exists in South Asian communities today, writes Saman Javed ...

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities ...

The South Asian caste system that exists today is a hierarchical system dating back thousands of years that originated from Hinduism in India but is practiced now throughout South Asia and among ...