*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

LUCKNOW, India -- Her father was a low-level government clerk from a caste so poor and uneducated it was shunned for centuries as "untouchable." Her mother was illiterate. But the daughter they named ...

Prem Pariyar believed he had left caste oppression behind when he moved from Nepal to the United States. Here, he would no longer be targeted as an “untouchable.” But as a restaurant worker in the Bay ...

Social media platforms, often praised for giving everyone a voice, can reinforce inequality and deepen the exclusion of marginalized communities, new research from the University of Bath School of ...

The Dalit-born archbishop of Hyderabad will be elevated to the College of Cardinals at a consistory in August. Archbishop Anthony Poola of Hyderabad smiles at a welcome ceremony by the clergy and ...

A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest Dalit caste has been elected as the country's 14th president. A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest ...

Dalit Christians organized a protest march against the recent appointment of a non-Dalit as the metropolitan archbishop of Pondicherry-Cuddalore in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “It is ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A former rebel fighter and member of India's "untouchable" caste is taking on caste-based discrimination with packaged foods that would have been regarded as ...