Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

The Indian caste system is the most widely cited and one ... sometimes referred to as the “untouchables.” They perform work that’s considered undignified or “befouling” and this may ...

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Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather ... while Dalits—previously known as “untouchables”—at the bottom performed menial work like street ...

Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, ...

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 ...

The caste system, developed in India, divides people into separate ... offered legal protection to 400,000 Dalits - so-called "untouchables" - who lived in the UK and faced discrimination in ...