Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

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 plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

On the eve of Onam, the most joyous festival in India's Kerala state, 45-year-old Sobhana lay shivering in the back of an ...

India's lowest castes, the Dalits, are known for their illiteracy and deep poverty. But in rural India, something remarkable is happening: Dalit children are attending elementary school. Peter ...

Why B.R. Ambedkar, a Dalit himself, ultimately embraced Buddhism as the faith best for him and his community. Last month marked the 67th anniversary of India’s most famous Dalit’s conversion to ...

As disciple and spiritual heir of Mahatma Gandhi, frail and wispy Acharya Vinoba Bhave, born to India’s Brahman caste, came to love the Untouchables. Like the Mahatma, he called them harijans, or ...

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - For a leader dubbed the "Untouchables Queen" who runs one of India's poorest states, it was indeed a birthday bash fit for royalty. Dressed in a diamond necklace and ...

DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.

Cradling in her arms a young boy battling cancer, Princess Diana can be seen staring intently at the child - and she did so with tears in her eyes, according to the photographer who captured the ...