Dalits, who make up 20 per cent of Bihar’s population, hold just 1.3 per cent of government jobs, a stark reminder of structural exclusion. Before the 1970s, Dalit voters largely supported the ...

The Mala community had played a key role in the Congress party’s victory and urged newly elected sarpanches and ward members ...

The Congress on Monday alleged that crimes and atrocities against Dalits in BJP-ruled states were on the rise, claiming that perpetrators were being protected and patronised by ruling governments, ...

For more than 4,000 years, the Dalits of India were called “the untouchables,” the lowest of the low. The Dalits are at the bottom of the Indian caste hierarchy and are currently the oldest surviving ...

Residents of Bajura's Muktikot village prepare to head to India for work after failing to find jobs at home. Photo: DHANU BISHWAKARMA "I shut down my poultry farm as the villagers did not buy fresh ...

Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters, Congress SC Department chairman Rajendra Pal Gautam alleged that the ...

MUMBAI, India (RNS) Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western state of Gujarat. ...

Members of India’s lowest Dalit caste are fighting against discrimination by posting “mustache selfies” on social media. The posts are in response to a string of violent incidents in which Dalits in ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...