The notion that the British introduced India's rigid caste system is false. Eighteenth-century Indian rulers, Brahmins, and merchants actively enforced a deeply entrenched system of caste and ...
The convention concluded with a unanimous call to build a united Joint Dalit Front in Himachal Pradesh, which will act as an umbrella body for all Dalit and allied social organisations. A decision on ...
The Madhya Pradesh government's affidavit in the Supreme Court in the OBC reservation opens with a contradiction ...
Gandhi and Ambedkar had warned against the troubling historical pattern of caste-based attacks that Hindutva forces are now ...
Sharing our ideology on platform of different ideology is important”: Kamal Gavai said her husband attended RSS events but never accepted its Hindutva thought ...
Two journeys in Jammu, Punjab, and Rajasthan along the Indian side of the border with Pakistan in the early years of the 21st century brought this columnist face to face with Christians among ...
"Hinduism is nothing but a collection of castes. If caste is removed, there is no Hinduism. When someone converts to another religion, they are invited into that faith. Why do you refuse entry? If ...
Retired bureaucrats from Dalit community say IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s experiences weren’t different from their own, ...
When tribal artist Durgabai Vyam was asked by a publisher to draw for a graphic book about caste untouchability in India, she leafed through the celebrated titles laid out in front of her -- books by ...
While the mystical elements involving the guardian deities Panjurli and Guliga may be the biggest attention grabbers for cine ...
KATHMANDU, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Nepal's beleaguered Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda vowed on Sunday to ban the dowry system and criminalise untouchability, in an apparent bid to win popular support as ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on Thursday to end "financial untouchability" with a scheme to ensure the majority of households in his country of nearly 1.3 billion people ...