DEHRADUN: A priest and two of his associates have been booked by the district revenue police for caste-based discrimination in Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district. Reports have emerged from ...

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The family filed a case against their opponents under the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which protects Dalits against caste-based violence and punishes ...

However, independent India since 1951 only counted Dalits and Adivasis, who are referred to as scheduled castes and tribes, respectively. Everyone else’s caste was marked as general.

The conflict between two dalit communities of Andhra Pradesh - the malas, who have had the lion's share of the scheduled caste quotas of jobs and educational opportunities, and the madigas, who have ...