Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The tragically accelerated, chilling, and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. The lingering, millennia-long caste system ...
Finally, we acknowledge with appreciation the support of the Ford Foundation, which provided funding that has enabled Human Rights Watch to pursue caste and gender-related research and advocacy in ...
In the college there are now some 2500 students in the arts college, of whom 600 are of the Scheduled Castes (ex-Untouchables) and the rest caste Hindus. Associated Commerce and Law schools have ...
Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in ... Dalits have long been ostracized as the ‘untouchables’ in Indian society. Discrimination and the impact of the ...
But one young, charismatic man - a member of India's lowest caste, the Dalits (formerly "untouchables") - is hoping to do just that in the general election. Chandrashekhar Azad is taking on India ...