44 years on, 3 men convicted in one of India’s worst caste-based killings
Nearly 44 years after 24 Dalits were brutally killed in a targeted massacre in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, ...
A new book examines the violent legacy of the Criminal Tribes Act on Tamil Nadu’s Maravar community
Consequently, well into the early 20th century, agrarian relations in the Tamil countryside continued to be marked by ...
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Favouring Middle Class Against Development?
By Dhurjati Mukherjee Most governments have been favouring the middle class, and the present dispensation too has done so in ...
Opinion
Time to look at allegations of caste bias within church
A question that had vexed Roberto de Nobili, a 17th-century Italian missionary in southern India, has recently come up before the Supreme Court. A group of Dali ...
Bridegroom among 3 Dalits injured in ‘attack’ by upper-caste men over playing music during baraat in Meerut; three held
On February 21, a Dalit wedding procession was allegedly attacked by upper-caste members at Dharmawali village in Bulandshahr ...
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Indian Supreme Court against caste discrimination in Catholic parish
Court accepts to hear a complaint by some Catholic families in Tamil Nadu over caste segregation in burials for Dalits in the ...