How India’s former “untouchables” are finding freedom. Guruammal, 26, was a member of India’s despised Dalits (formerly known as untouchables). As such, she possessed fewer rights than almost anyone ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

Written and directed by the exceptionally talented Ava DuVernay, the film — a masterful adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” — unflinchingly ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Origin, the latest film from acclaimed director Ava DuVernay (Selma, When They See Us), depicts marginalisation as a thread that connects race, class, caste and gender. It ...

Origin, the latest film from acclaimed director Ava DuVernay (Selma, When They See Us), depicts marginalisation as a thread that connects race, class, caste and gender. It is inspired by Isabel ...

Four years ago Isabel Wilkerson published “Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents,” it became a #1 New York Times best-seller and came out in paperback last year. Her first book, “The Warmth of Other ...

Caste-based discrimination practices in more than 1,300 jails across India, dating back to British colonial rule, have been declared unconstitutional by the country’s supreme court. Responding to a ...

The most significant caste census in the history of Indian ethnography was not that of 1931. It was the 1911 census that catapulted the non-descript, oppressed and dehumanised community of ...