A young man's suicide has catapulted him from anonymity into a symbol of protest against India's relentlessly cruel caste system. Rohith Vemula was just one of thousands of Dalit (formerly known ...

The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s deeply entrenched caste system. "My parents ...

People from the lower rungs of India's strict social hierarchy say they're trapped doing jobs like cleaning sewers because of ...

Shahu Patole’s book Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, artist Rajyashri Goody’s installation Eat with Great Delight, and Sri Vamsi ...

Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

She tells her story in Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System, which was published in India in 2019 (and won a literary award). The book has now been released for the ...

Dalits also do not have strong business networks, nor do they have access to the social spaces where business decisions are made. They do not have a strong community support system, which could ...

A young Dalit woman shared her experiences of dating amid caste-based discrimination, revealing how men often lost interest upon learning her caste. She faced fetishisation, emotional pain and ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 5, No. 2, IDENTITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS with Symposium on Caste and Psychology (April 2024), pp. 220-236 (17 pages) We know little about how skin ...

Rahul Gandhi on “Miss India” "...I checked the list of Miss India to see if there would be any Dalit or tribal woman in it, but there were no women from Dalit, tribal or OBC. Still the media ...

Caste question In Pakistan, Dalits battle dual discrimination As a religious minority and a ‘lower’ caste, the community leads a marginal existence even though political representation has ...