Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups ...

One of the few men who have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no ...

Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of ... while Dalits—previously known as “untouchables”—at the bottom performed menial work like street sweeping or cleaning sewers.

Our entire future depends on politics and nothing else. Neither pilgrimages to Pandharpur, Trimbakeshwar, Kashi, Haridwar, etc., nor fasting such as Shani Maha ...

A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community ... which sits at the bottom of India's rigid caste hierarchy.

Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, ...

Shahani Goswami, the lead actress of the film 'Santosh', expressed her disappointment on Thursday over the movie not being ...

A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly untouchable ... at the bottom of India's rigid caste hierarchy. Relatives of the ...