Millions of missionaries work in schools, hospitals and other institutions. Their success is deepening divisions.

This year will see a continued conversation and argument on the interplay of caste, religion ... and among politically affiliated diaspora groups. The relative success of the Indian National ...

and the workings of the justice system, among other aspects of Indian life. (The vegetarianism that Kaling and Harris claim ...

Explore how caste influences Indian politics, from historical shifts to emerging leaders and the growing role of marginalized ...

Religion Team reporter Deepa Bharath’s story on the contentious ripple effects of India’s caste system among the South Asian diaspora in the U.S. was an all-formats effort, pegged to Seattle becoming ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Discrimination based on the caste group one is born into, say activists who work with caste in the Indian context ... University system and the city of Seattle have been among the institutions ...

In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

India’s Supreme Court has declined a Christian man ... probably on Jan. 28,” he said. Baghel, a Protestant Christian from a socially poor Dalit caste, wanted to fulfill his father's wish by burying ...

Indian Christians ... protest against the caste discrimination inherent in Indian society. Ambedkar, born into a Dalit family, experienced firsthand the dehumanizing effects of the caste system. His ...

There are at least five students from her college and former classmates from her school among the accused ... which is the lowest caste in India. Dalits have faced widespread discrimination ...

Rutgers University, after a more than yearlong review, has declined to create a separate prohibition against caste-based ... or religion,” Shukla added, “and that Indian and Hindu American ...