that some of his fellow Hindus were unconvinced that the caste system needed to be addressed at all. Shanmugam is among those American Hindus who believe that the Indian diaspora has grown to the ...

The fifth pillar of caste, according to Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” is the division of labour based on one’s place in the hierarchy.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday has passed, and we are heading into Black History Month, making this a good moment to ...

The Untouchables” was a popularized expression when the movie came out about the Al Capone mob and the FBI agent, Elliot Ness ...

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.

The list includes Harvard, Brown, the University of Minnesota, Brandeis and the entire California State University system ... As caste has become a bigger and bigger issue in many American ...

which deems Nazism and American racism — alongside India’s own rigid caste system — as the caste systems that have “stood out” the most “throughout human history.” And “Origin ...