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 ...

Scholar emphasises that without social and economic equality, political democracy becomes meaningless and vulnerable to ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congress' Nehru Legacy Honour Claim Falls Flat As Scrutiny Reveals 'Insult' To Ambedkar During UPA Rule. New Delhi, Dec 7 ...

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 ...

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, ...