India, the world’s largest democracy, finds itself threatened by the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological ...

Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of oppression. A powerful story of resilience and hope against systemic ...

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 ...

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.

There was a time when the ancestors of the present day Untouchables were not Untouchables vis-a-vis the villagers but were merely Broken Men, no more and no less, and the only difference between ...

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 ...

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

Participation and control of Dalits, backwards and tribals is key, he says at the 130th birth anniversary of freedom fighter, ...

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, ...