Isaacs, India's Ex-Untouchables. New York ... The depth-interview technique, which Isaacs used to successfully in his important study, The New World of Negro Americans, reduces (or should one ...

"They used to call me all kind ... says it's helped more than 60,000 "untouchables" and installed more than a million of its eco-friendly, humane toilets in India alone. The United Nations ...

Dr BR Ambedkar was once refused water because of caste. But India's most powerful reformer turned pain into purpose and went ...

Barack Obama Such complacency is premature. The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called "Untouchables," the outcastes who for millennia ...

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 ...

As India commemorates the 135th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, his ideas today are not merely confined to history ...

In India alone, close to 160 million so-called "untouchables" or Dalits (known in legal parlance as scheduled castes) are routinely discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in ...

India's lowest castes, the Dalits, are known for their illiteracy and deep poverty. But in rural India, something remarkable is happening: Dalit children are attending elementary school.