India’s 200 million Dalits, formerly untouchables, are placed on the lowest rung of a caste hierarchy and often the targets of discrimination though India abolished untouchability in 1955.

Over the last month, Dalits (formerly untouchables) across India have been threatened, beaten and killed for seemingly mundane reasons, highlighting again how vulnerable the community is.

Under-educated, severely impoverished, and brutally exploited, Dalits struggle to provide for even their most basic daily needs. Dalits must also endure daily threats to their physical security ...

At least 15 people were arrested after dozens of houses belonging to Dalits, also known as untouchables in the Hindu caste system, were set on fire in the East Indian state of Bihar, police said ...

"We are victims of violence because we are poor, lower caste and women, so looked down upon by all," a Dalit woman told researcher Jayshree Mangubhai some years ago. "There is no one to help or ...

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More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

In 2022, Manu Kaur experienced severe hopelessness and depression, to the point of being hospitalized. Kaur, who is Punjabi and Dalit – the latter being a term used to describe the most oppressed ...

A retired soldier allegedly shot dead a Dalit man over a land dispute in a village here on Monday, police said. Superintendent of Police (SP) Vineet Jaiswal said Arun Singh, a retired soldier ...

Dalit leader Basavaraj Kouthal, a representative of the union, told DH, “The struggle for internal reservation has been going on for 30 years. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah welcomed it as well.

In Yadgir district of Karnataka, fifty Dalit families are reportedly enduring a social boycott after a minor girl's parents filed sexual assault charges against an upper caste man. Following the ...

The fact is that states like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and UP were lucky enough to have a Dalit CM. But in Tamil Nadu which ...