Bollywood film about anti-caste icons delayed after protests from Brahmins - India’s film certification body accused of ...

The persistence of caste stigma against Dalits in India is a complex issue rooted in historical, social, economic, and ...

In the Hindu caste system, people are placed at birth into ... occupied the lowest rung of the hierarchy. They were deemed "untouchables." Post-independence, electoral politics have given ...

Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups vying for higher status or colonial favor. This contributed to the ...

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – A private school in Coimbatore, a district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, forced a Dalit ...

In the villages of Tamil Nadu and across India's urban parishes, a profound contradiction unfolds daily. "My faith teaches ...

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 ...

The release of a Bollywood film chronicling the lives of two 19th-century anti-caste reformers in India has been delayed following protests from upper caste groups who have accused it of defaming ...