Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

GUWAHATI: Ahead of the proposed nationwide caste census, Assam has initiated preparatory measures to conduct a comprehensive caste census of seven native Muslim communities of the state to distinguish ...

Constructively criticising the Constitution is imperative at a time when its survival is threatened by the Hindutva project.

In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as "caste discrimination" in the U.S. Seattle became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

The BJP and Janata Dal United recorded a dominant win over the opposition in the Bihar election, thumping Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress by over 200 seats. One of the bedrocks ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...