Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of ...

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 ...

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 ...

H.R. Karnik, a caste-Hindu educator who served until recently as principal of the Siddharth College of Arts & Science, said that of the 300 ex-Untouchables a admitted each year in Arts ...

The Untouchables” was a popularized expression when the movie came out about the Al Capone mob and the FBI agent, Elliot Ness ...

In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

January, 2025, marks the ninth year since Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder. Dalits and Adivasis across India continue his ...

Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted a conversation about civil rights solidarity between race and ...

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development ...

a group once known as the “untouchables” under what the department called India’s centuries-old caste system. The Hindu American Foundation claimed in its 2022 complaint that California acted ...

with a scholar from the Dalit caste — the “untouchable” lowest tier of India’s caste system — telling Wilkerson he feels a kinship with them as well as Black people. The book “Caste ...