Bhajan Lal, an old man of few good teeth and many deep facial lines, hurriedly arranged two cots into a conversational grouping beneath his hut’s awning. To look at Lal is to see a peasant li… ...

FINDING MY RELIGION / Dharmachari Kumarjeev and millions of other Indian untouchables ...

Ashley Montagu (1942) and Gunnar Myrdal (1944) wrote books about our caste system. Bhimrao Ambedkar, an Indian untouchable who came to America to study economics in 1913, wrote about this.

Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of oppression. A powerful story of resilience and hope against systemic ...

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian ...

When untouchables arrived in places like Malaysia, Fiji, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, they found that the caste system existed in the local Indian communities. The same pattern continues in ...

“Though I was born a Hindu untouchable, I shall not die as a Hindu,” wrote Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who devoted his life to abolishing the caste system and who embraced his new faith just two ...

Ambedkar, an untouchable, or dalit, and a prominent Indian freedom fighter, was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, which outlawed discrimination based on caste. 4 of 12 Bikas Das/AP ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated.

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...