Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist legend of Matanga and Persian and Arabic perspectives on ...

Baba Saheb, who faced discrimination since childhood, wanted to completely eradicate the caste system from the society. That ...

This way of thinking continues today, where many believe that the caste system, in its current form ... evidence from Ashokan edicts and Buddhist texts indicates how caste came to be consolidated ...

Shudra: The Rising (2012), directed by Sanjiv Jaiswal, which explored the brutal oppression of Dalits under the Hindu caste system, also encountered massive resistance at the time. Hyderabad-based ...

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.

Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist legend of Matanga and ... Thus, an entire system was created to keep “devils and filthy” groups excommunicated.