A Chinese man explains China's hukou household registration system, which many describe as "caste-like" for creating a ...

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Despite caste-based discrimination being outlawed by Article 15 of the Indian constitution, caste continues to play a pervasive and insidious role in today’s society. Anthropologist Louis Dumont ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

Siya did not elope with her lover Chetan, nor did she go to the police to seek help against familial coercion; instead by allegedly killing her fiancé Ketan, she tried to contain the crisis within the ...

Renu Singh was 19 when she had to undergo an abortion, all alone in the city of Nagpur with nobody to take care of her. Away from home, Renu lived in a rented house with other women, but couldn’t ...

Researchers say caste conflicts are being asserted on social media. Cops say Insta posts have tripled in the past year ...