Decades of caste discrimination have contributed to India having higher levels of child stunting rates than across ...

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In the Indian caste system, the most widely cited and perhaps ... sometimes called the “untouchables.” Left to perform work ...

The issue of a caste census is torn between the ideas of social justice and political correctness.

First, the caste system is a four-fold categorical ... Getty Images A leader of those formerly considered untouchable with a government official in British India WR Cornish, who supervised census ...

Deep roots of the caste system India's caste system ... previously dismissed as "untouchables." The concept of "jati," ...

"These groups of people were considered untouchable," Venkatesan said ... While her upbringing in Tiruchirappalli, India, was ...

In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Columbia-educated Minister for Law in Nehru’s cabinet, is an “untouchable,” and heads the largest group of India’s 60 million untouchables, the sub-basement ...

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