PUNE, India – As a Dalit, Pratibha Valmik Kamble is part of the poorest and most ostracized community in this subcontinent’s ancient caste system, a group of people so shunned that they are still ...

On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...

KODERMA, India — When Nirupama Pathak left this remote mining region for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not ...

Journalist Meena Kotwal (center) issues a statement from Silgir village in India where she joined a protest for indigenous people's rights. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

India's caste system is often seen as an institution deeply rooted in traditional Indian culture. This carefully researched study, however, argues that the caste system was at least partly shaped by ...

The Allahabad High Court directs Uttar Pradesh authorities to stop Scheduled Caste benefits for religious converts, terming ...

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...