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India's first woman speaker come from India's lowest Dalit caste, formerly known as "untouchables". From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

Barack Obama Such complacency is premature. The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called "Untouchables," the outcastes who for millennia ...

and Kathy Sreedhar of the Holdeen India Fund, Washington, D.C. We also thank the many people who prefer, for their own well-being and that of their organizations, that their names not be mentioned ...

6. Violence Against `Untouchables' Growing, Says Report: Indian Government Fails to Prevent Massacres, Rapes, and Exploitation, Human Rights Watch Press Release, April 1999. 8. Consideration of ...