Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of ...

Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted a conversation about civil rights solidarity between race and ...

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

Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers ...

For hundreds of years, a hierarchical caste structure has repressed Indian society, sustaining various forms of exploitation ...

January, 2025, marks the ninth year since Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder. Dalits and Adivasis across India continue his ...

Atul Kumar, the son of a daily wage worker and from the Scheduled Caste community ... With rising costs in the Indian education system, many students from the marginalised communities are unable ...

a group once known as the “untouchables” under what the department called India’s centuries-old caste system. The Hindu American Foundation claimed in its 2022 complaint that California acted ...

They occupy the bottom of south Asia's ancient caste system and were once called untouchables. Despite decades of Dalit activism and government reforms, they're among India's poorest. They're also ...

Prayagraj (India) (AFP) – Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers to clear up behind them -- those born on ...