Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a Dalit, the lowest level in India's complex caste system, she was a ...

Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups ...

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 ...

Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by Andy Smith The Caste System: An Overview Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...