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

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

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 ...

The author attacks the whole caste system, not merely the disabilities of the Untouchables, as a block on India's road to true nationhood. Loading... Please enable ...

that their names not be mentioned — an unfortunate indicator of the volatility surrounding the issue of caste conflict in India. We would like to express our gratitude to the many Dalit men ...

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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 ...

Dalits, formerly known as 'untouchables', are viewed ... 100 years to break down caste barriers, the caste system is still a dominating feature of Indian society. Under the Indian Constitution ...

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 ...