If you've read novels like The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, you'll be painfully aware of the ubiquitous discrimination against Untouchables -- or Dalits - ...

“Aarakshan,” which means reservation, explores quotas for lower castes in the government and educational institutions, affirmative action which upper caste, often wealthier Indians see as squeezing ...

How India’s former “untouchables” are finding freedom. Guruammal, 26, was a member of India’s despised Dalits (formerly known as untouchables). As such, she possessed fewer rights than almost anyone ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

“[Female newsreader] A 29 year old Dalit man was murdered by an upper caste and OBC men near Shridi last week…[Male newsreader] She was strangled by her parents at their home and cremated, Nadha’s ...

The caste system may be outlawed in India, but legislation is poorly implemented, and the country’s 200 million Dalits continue to suffer appalling forms of discrimination, writes Rikke Nohrlind. For ...

AGRA, India—As far back as he can remember, people told Hari Kishan Pippal that he was unclean, with a filthiness that had tainted his family for centuries. Teachers forced him to sit apart from other ...

Caste hierarchy is the major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many theories, which have tried to understand its ...

The author needs to be complimented for his painstaking and meticulous research which includes archival sources to clarify the mutating nature of caste and its lived realities. The title itself hits ...

There is a vast body of scholarship on Hindu-Muslim relations as well as on the question of whether a self-conscious Hindu identity, whether named as such or not, spanning sect and caste, existed in ...