Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of ...

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.

The Mappila Theyyam of Kasargod is a unique festival where Islam is not otherised but embraced as a protector, an ally of ...

My research focuses on Dalits (‘untouchables’) of India and their engagement with colonialism, nationalism, spatial and social exclusionary regimes, and democratic thought and practice in modern India ...

Academic and policy researchers, including Western anthropologists, have shown little interest in the lives and problems of ...

Jayesh Solanki was killed allegedly for watching a dance performance A Dalit (formerly untouchable) man was beaten to death in the western Indian state of Gujarat allegedly for watching people ...

HADID: The book spotlights the culinary traditions of Dalits. They occupy the bottom of south Asia's ancient caste system and were once called untouchables. Despite decades of Dalit activism and ...

Falling below the lowest rung of the social ladder circumscribed by the iron grip of the caste system in India, my community, the Dalits, or the erstwhile untouchables, are violently oppressed, muted, ...