Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a Dalit, the lowest level in India's complex caste system, she was a ...

In the villages of Tamil Nadu and across India's urban parishes, a profound contradiction unfolds daily. "My faith teaches ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

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

Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, and state power intersect in Maharashtra’s political landscape and the ...

Many Dalits have converted to Christianity and Islam to avoid caste-based oppression, and now form about 60 per cent of India’s Christian community. India’s Supreme Court issued a notice to a ...