According to the complainant, the panchayat declared that three members of an upper-caste group had violated caste norms by ...

Dalit thinkers argue that caste as a dimension of social oppression was sidelined in communist practice. Intellectuals within ...

Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, traces the demands put ...

A man from Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh has alleged that his village panchayat ordered a social boycott against him and ...

In a chilling reminder of how deeply caste prejudices continue to survive in parts of rural India, a case of social boycott ...

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

Six individuals were sentenced to two-year imprisonment by a special court for preventing a Dalit woman from cooking at a ...

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Untouchability is a correlate of the caste system, and Dalits are outcasts; they are not within the caste system. Dalits are a community of people who are segregated, who are suffering from exclusion, ...

A groundbreaking US survey revealed widespread caste discrimination among Dalits, challenging the notion that it's confined to South Asia. Activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan spearheaded the research, ...

Today, the most urgent transformation needed in many local contexts is the social conscience of various OBC groups, so that ...

Durga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste discrimination in Nepal’s culturally conservative far-west, and had thought educated ...