AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Dosa vendor Sunil Gagnath Sabkale watches over a fragile Buddhist temple across the street from a market where he sells his crepelike pancakes. The temple consists of a small ...

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Grandsons of Dalit leader Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar are appealing to the community to mention their original caste in the caste ...

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 ...

In this Aug. 15, 2016 file photo, hundreds of members of India’s low-caste Dalit community gather for a rally in Una, Gujarat state, India. (Credit: Ajit Solanki/AP.) Listen MUMBAI, India – Archbishop ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

The streets of Chennai, formerly Madras, India's fourth largest city, are jammed with bikes, buses, trucks and cars, all careening in and out and around each other, honking incessantly and largely to ...

The cycle of violence against Dalits continues unabated. A string of attacks on Dalits, a term used for the disadvantaged community treated as pariahs by society, and the people belonging to religious ...

To mark India’s 70th year of independence on August 15 2016, the prime minister addressed the nation from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort. Amid much pomp, his upbeat speech on the state of the nation ...

When Dutt was a kid, her family pretended to be rich so no one would suspect their caste identity. In her memoir, she talks of her struggles —... As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in ...