In a society deeply rooted in the caste system, where Dalits (then called untouchables) were barred from entering Hindu temples, Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, issued ...

Discover Poykayil Appachan`s inspiring life, his defiance of caste and war, and his legacy in Kerala`s fight for social ...

Facing systemic exclusion, scores of Dalit families in Gujarat are turning to Buddhism. But official recognition of these ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...

Artisans who make Kolhapuri sandals are demanding better recognition after Prada failed to acknowledge design roots.

Kathmandu, June 17 -- ever National Dalit Round Table Conference concluded on Sunday with a 42-point declaration demanding justice, equality, and structural reform to address caste-based ...

Ryan O'Leary, an American volunteer, said that mismanagement within the military, rather than Russia's actions, was responsible for "more deaths," accusing commanders of prioritizing personal power ...

Back in 2019, a service seeker was filling the form for Disability Identity Card (DIC) for his daughter in a ward office in ...

You tend to take them for granted, so much a part of our accustomed landscape that the eye hovers briefly over them, then passes on as we drive our modern roads. Yet in those strange little ...

Chief Justice Gavai's "Brutal truths of caste" speech at Oxford University "At the Oxford Union today, I stand before you to say: for India's most vulnerable citizens, the Constitution is not ...

In our 75th Independence Day special issue, Outlook examined how the caste system endures—and what it will take to finally break it. Plus, more from archives.

The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables ...