Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, are placed on the lowest rung of India’s rigid caste hierarchy and are often targeted for discrimination by upper castes as well as institutions of state ...

GDP is growing at 6.7% but the reality is that consumption has been weak in India since at least 2020. Income growth is anaemic: casual and regular workers in 2023 earned a monthly wage 1% lower ...

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 ...

and Kathy Sreedhar of the Holdeen India Fund, Washington, D.C. We also thank the many people who prefer, for their own well-being and that of their organizations, that their names not be mentioned ...

Recommended India may have reached peak Modi Read more ... Those who fall outside these groups are known as Dalits, also known as “untouchables”, forced to take the jobs that nobody else ...

The announcement marks a high-profile intensification of the government’s efforts to claim Ambedkar. On March 30th Mr Modi ...

Phule, which garnered controversy for allegedly portraying Brahmins in a bad light, follows the story of Indian social ...

Gandhi writes in... Young India saying that the Travancore Government is giving full effect to the (Vaikom) agreement arrived at between the Commissioner of Police and himself.

Pakistan has announced that it will give a befitting reply to any misadventure by India which has downgraded diplomatic ties ...

Dr. Ambedkar was appointed as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly in 1947. He drafted the ...

Ambedkar’s birth anniversary (April 14) is a moment to revisit Christophe Jaffrelot’s 2005 book about the man who gave hope ...