Gujarat: Dalit man beaten, paraded naked for alleged extramarital affair in Sabarkantha
A Dalit man was assaulted, stripped naked and paraded in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district allegedly by the husband and kin of a ...
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 ...
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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Unseen conversions: The complex reality of scheduled caste Hindus embracing Islam in Pakistan
Consensual conversions among Scheduled Caste Hindus to Islam in Pakistan stem from the inability to afford cremation costs and the marginalization by Muslims and upper-caste Hindus. Community ...
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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 ...
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Dalit, Woman, Rebel: Why Dakshayani Velayudhan still matters
This International Women’s Day, we recall the legacy of one of the Constituent Assembly’s only Dalit women, reflecting on her ...