“She was an inspirational figure for me – that is also why I made the film,” he said. “Dalit activists have always been ...

The problem of casteism and caste discrimination against Dalits within the Catholic Church in India has existed for centuries. This issue has often been raised by Dalit Christians. But over the past ...

Dalit literature faces a new threat — biased algorithms, poor digitisation, and academic neglect are pushing this powerful movement rooted in resistance and equality to the margins again ...

Dalit Catholics in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have expressed dismay over the Vatican appointing a bishop of non-Dalit origin in a Dalit-majority diocese. Pope Francis on May 31 appointed ...

Clergy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church process at the start of Mass in a suburb of New Delhi, India. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – As bishops around the world meet at the ...

Indian Scholar and rights activist Suraj Yengde said that Nepal could take a lead role in Dalit empowerment as it had acknowledged at the United Nations that discrimination against Dalits was a ...

It can very well be argued that the CJI himself chose to be magnanimous by letting the offender go in the immediate aftermath ...

In a file photo, Christians, including Catholic clergy and women religious, participate in a demonstration in New Delhi Nov. 29, 2007, demanding an end to discrimination against dalit, or low-caste, ...

An American-born sociologist, she moved to India in the 1970s, helped pioneer the study of castes and drew attention to the lives of the country’s most oppressed. By Sameer Yasir Gail Omvedt, an ...

Tamil Nadu's Governor has stated that atrocities against the Dalit community are higher in Tamil Nadu than in the neighboring ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as ...