THOOTHUKUDI: The Untouchability Files, a short film that depicts caste discrimination, including the suicide of conservancy ...

The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born castes ...

Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950. Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance.

The entry of Dalits to a Shiva temple in the face of opposition by upper castes in West Bengal has, as expected, generated curiosity about the role of caste in the state’s society and politics. A ...

As many as 10 people, including six Schedule Caste women, were killed by men belonging to a gang led by dacoit Anar Singh Yadav. After 44 years of the gruesome killings, the court of special judge ...

Two of the three men appeared at the special court in Mainpuri district on Tuesday A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly ...

On Monday, Wang Chuanfu, the Shenzhen-based group’s billionaire founder, unveiled a new charging system that could add about 470km in range to BYD’s batteries in just five minutes. The ...

Another Bill, which is meant to clear sub-caste reservation for BCs, is also tabled in the House. This comes months after the state government’s caste survey found that the BCs — including Muslim ...