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 ...

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 ...

Officially, the caste system has been outlawed, but millennia of tradition have left deep dividing lines in Indian society. ... Now 56 former "untouchable" women from Alwar are getting their wish.

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 ...

“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 ...

Those who were outside the system became known as the outcasts or untouchables, and later as the Dalits. The term "jati" appears in almost all Indian languages and is closest to the word "caste ...

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 ...

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 ...