An Indian court has denied Christians of Dalit origin legal protections meant for lower caste people, saying a person who converted to Christianity cannot claim to be a member of a lower caste group.

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 ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism. (RNS) ...

How an investigative report forced the Supreme Court to confront entrenched caste discrimination in India’s prisons—and why change remains elusive ...

The new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations for 2026 have triggered controversy across academic and administrative ...

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 ...

How is caste discrimination observed and documented on campus? How much can the new UGC rules, now at the centre of a row, ...

Tension between traditional spiritual authority and political Hindutva is growing. Religious leaders feel that the government ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...