The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...

A Scheduled Caste woman, who serves as a temporary cook under the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme at the Panchayat Union Middle School in Chinnareddiyapatti of Karur district, was allegedly ...

Caste-related issues, ranging from affirmative action to caste-based atrocities, have repeatedly come before the Supreme Court for adjudication over the past seven decades, resulting in several ...

Puri Shankaracharya Nischalananda Saraswati criticized the Congress in Karnataka, alleging that the party is creating “dissolution within Hindu communities” through its caste census. He accused the ...

Rawat Ramnarayan, associate professor of history, has co-edited Dalit Journeys for Dignity (Orient Black Swan, 2025). The book focuses on the theme of Dalit struggles for dignity in India. It begins ...

A young IT professional was murdered in a suspected caste-motivated “honour killing” in India on Sunday evening. Kavin Selva Ganesh, 27, was allegedly hacked to death by his partner’s brother in the ...

The High Court of southern Tamil Nadu has ordered the state government to ensure that socially poor Dalit people can enter Hindu temples, following a complaint against a temple violating Dalits’ right ...

Converts need to choose between public faith and caste-based benefits. Vikrant Maheshwar, a Christian Dalit in his late 30s, worked for the Andhra Pradesh government in Southern India for 11 years.

The father of the Indian constitution was not allowed to sit inside the classroom at school. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was a Dalit: formerly known as an “untouchable” at the bottom of India’s caste ...

Early in April, a video showing a group of men in a fish market in India’s national capital of New Delhi sternly asking vendors to close their businesses went viral on social media. The men, some of ...

The release of a Bollywood film chronicling the lives of two 19th-century anti-caste reformers in India has been delayed following protests from upper caste groups who have accused it of defaming ...

A man wearing a face masks walks past an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu, India Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020.