As someone born into the Dalit caste, wherever I go, people have labeled me an untouchable or of lower ... Caste has its roots in South Asia. It’s a system of discrimination based on work ...

In a caste system, people are put into fixed social ... Beneath this hierarchy, there’s another group: Dalit, sometimes ...

As the first comedian from the Dalit community to achieve widespread recognition, Manjeet has broken through centuries of caste oppression with his work. Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste marks ...

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 ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the ... while Dalits—previously known as “untouchables”—at the bottom performed ...

Going against the obvious but misinformed approach of focussing the discourse on caste entirely on either Brahmins or Dalits, ...

While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the ...

As more institutions adopt policies against caste discrimination, disagreements about caste's prevalence among those in the ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

First, the caste system is a four-fold categorical hierarchy ... Getty Images A leader of those formerly considered untouchable with a government official in British India WR Cornish, who ...

Falling below the lowest rung of the social ladder circumscribed by the iron grip of the caste system in India, my community, the Dalits, or the erstwhile untouchables, are violently oppressed, muted, ...