Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of oppression. A powerful story of resilience and hope against systemic ...

Dalits are the class of people formerly known as “Untouchables” in the Hindu religion, which are the lowest class. Under India’s national constitution they are given special rights and protection.

India, the world’s largest democracy, finds itself threatened by the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

There was a time when the ancestors of the present day Untouchables were not Untouchables vis-a-vis the villagers but were merely Broken Men, no more and no less, and the only difference between ...

My research focuses on Dalits (‘untouchables’) of India and their engagement with colonialism, nationalism, spatial and social exclusionary regimes, and democratic thought and practice in modern India ...

HADID: The book spotlights the culinary traditions of Dalits. They occupy the bottom of south Asia's ancient caste system and were once called untouchables. Despite decades of Dalit activism and ...

Falling below the lowest rung of the social ladder circumscribed by the iron grip of the caste system in India, my community, the Dalits, or the erstwhile untouchables, are violently oppressed, muted, ...

Participation and control of Dalits, backwards and tribals is key, he says at the 130th birth anniversary of freedom fighter, ...