Six individuals were sentenced to two-year imprisonment by a special court for preventing a Dalit woman from cooking at a ...

Today, Periyar’s legacy continues to influence Tamil Nadu’s social landscape, driving higher female enrollment in education, ...

With Dalit Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai retiring, India's top court will be down to one Dalit and one woman — with most of the judges being upper caste Hindu men. Is the court ready for ...

A groundbreaking US survey revealed widespread caste discrimination among Dalits, challenging the notion that it's confined ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

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Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, ...

This story appeared as The Big Blind Spot in Outlook’s December 11 issue, Dravida, which captures these tensions that shape ...

Today, the most urgent transformation needed in many local contexts is the social conscience of various OBC groups, so that ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

Durga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste discrimination in Nepal’s culturally conservative far-west, and had thought educated ...