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

Women's pivotal role in historic struggle for equal access to public spaces chronicled in concise encyclopaedia.

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 ...