Bollywood film about anti-caste icons delayed after protests from Brahmins - India’s film certification body accused of ...

The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born castes ...

The Anti-Caste Movement Within the caste system, a group known as Dalits occupied the lowest rung of the hierarchy. They were deemed "untouchables." Post-independence, electoral politics have ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Officially, the caste system has been outlawed ... So far, his organization says it's helped more than 60,000 "untouchables" and installed more than a million of its eco-friendly, humane toilets ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather ... while Dalits—previously known as “untouchables”—at the bottom performed menial work like street ...

The author attacks the whole caste system, not merely the disabilities of the Untouchables, as a block on India's road to true nationhood. Loading... Please enable ...

India’s caste system – which saw at the bottom the Dalit people (untouchables) who were considered so low as to be outside its rigid classifications – was officially dismantled in 1947.

The release of a Bollywood film chronicling the lives of two 19th-century anti-caste reformers in India has been delayed following protests from upper caste groups who have accused it of defaming ...