Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

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 Indian caste system is the most widely cited and one ... sometimes referred to as the “untouchables.” They perform work that’s considered undignified or “befouling” and this may ...

Sandhya Suri’s ambitious debut tells the story of a young Hindu widow who takes on her late husband’s constable job and is thrown into the violent world of Indian law enforcement.

One of the few men who have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no ...

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Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, ...