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American colleges are beginning to recognise an unsavoury but truly Indian experience: caste.

vbierschwale April 18, 2022 1 13 sec read

University of California, Davis, is the first such public institution to codify the social system as a protected category under its anti-discrimination policy. In October, the privately-run Maine’s Colby College banned such differentiation on its campus. In November 2019, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, made a similar move.

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