This Women's Day week, we honour Savitribai Phule, India's first female teacher, who fearlessly fought for women's education, ...

our women are raped or treated as sexual objects. We face humiliation at all levels of society, including at religious places.” Recommended India may have reached peak Modi Read more But last ...

Harold R. Isaacs, India's Ex-Untouchables. New York; John Day Company, 1965, $4.50. Under the laws of India, Untouchability no longer exists; it went out en self-government came in with the ...

Ruth Manorama of the National Federation for Dalit Women; Henry Thiagaraj of the Dalit Liberation Education Trust, Tamil Nadu; and Kathy Sreedhar of the Holdeen India Fund, Washington, D.C. We ...