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 ...

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.

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 ...

Gidla comes from a line of Christian “untouchables” in southern India who are at the bottom of India’s caste-defined social system; by recounting the experiences of her mother and uncles ...

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 ...

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 ...