Dalit believers face less overt discrimination ... have exchanged their easily recognizable surnames for more caste-neutral or high-caste ones. After changing their names, many move away from ...

PTI had reported on Saturday how the Dalit families, all having 'Das' surnames and belonging to the traditional community of cobblers and weavers, were fighting an uneven battle against majority ...

Threatened, ostracised and pushed to the edge, a group of about 130 Dalit families in West ... all having 'Das' surnames and belonging to the traditional community of cobblers and weavers, have ...

KHAMGAON, India – Pork rinds. Dried squirrel. Spicy fish eggs. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada is part anthology, part cookbook and part rebuke to readers, who may presume Indian food is largely ...