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

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

H.R. Karnik, a caste-Hindu educator who served until recently as principal of the Siddharth College of Arts & Science, said that of the 300 ex-Untouchables a admitted each year in Arts ...

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

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

What matters in America is caste domination of power that has existed since 1619. 2042 is looming in the not-too-distant ...

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 ...