California state senator Aisha Wahab talks to TIME about the threats her office has received after introducing the bill.

Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith's rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar will determine whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power next month. More than two-thirds of ...

State Senator Aisha Wahab seen here with Mayor Todd Gloria introduced and authored the anti-caste discrimination bill. Photo via @aishabbwahab X Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed ...

In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as "caste discrimination" in the U.S. Seattle became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add ...

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of thousands of India’s Dalits — once known as Untouchables — skipped work and poured into the streets this week, waving the dark blue flags of Dalit resistance. The protesters ...

The top court in southern Indian Tamil Nadu state has ruled that persons marrying under the Christian personal law should be considered to have converted to Christianity and abandoned their ...

(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by the state legislature to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing existing laws that already prohibit ...

State Senator Aisha Wahab seen here with Mayor Todd Gloria introduced and authored the anti-caste discrimination bill. Photo via @aishabbwahab X California moved closer to becoming the first U.S.

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...

In 19th-century Travancore, India, caste and clothing intersected in ways that shaped women’s public dignity.

THATI, India — When Sardar Singh Jatav set out walking on a muggy night in early September to talk with the men who employed his son, he found them already waiting for him in the road. But they were ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...