How have the Dravidian movement, the Dalit movement led by Ambedkar and his successors, the Communist movement, and the ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home town in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention ...

This week, grisly news emerged of the deaths of two Dalit children in India: An infant and toddler were burned alive in an arson attack in Faridabad, a city near Delhi. Their father, Jitender Kumar, ...

Today, Periyar’s legacy continues to influence Tamil Nadu’s social landscape, driving higher female enrollment in education, ...

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 ...

Popular ballads and stories abound highlighting the virtues of Kshatriya values embodied in acts of saving the cow from the assaults of Muslim butchers, who were allegedly supplied cows by Chuhras and ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTI-CASTE UTOPIAS: A DALIT BAHUJAN DISCOURSE (October 2023), pp. 351-366 (16 pages) This article locates ...

Dalit Christian organizations have urged the Church to appoint prelates of Dalit origin in dioceses in southern India. Five dioceses in Tamil Nadu and one archdiocese in Puducherry, a union territory, ...

"Unfortunately, many people in America and Europe are not aware of or know about the vibrancy of women's movements in Asian countries, such as India," says Mangala Subramaniam, an assistant professor ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as ...

Indian Scholar and rights activist Suraj Yengde said that Nepal could take a lead role in Dalit empowerment as it had acknowledged at the United Nations that discrimination against Dalits was a ...