Browsing: Dalits

On June 7, the district authorities shut the Sri Dharmaraja Draupadi Amman Temple in Melpathi village of Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram…

The subject of a major political debate in India is an epic poem from the 16th century that is based…

Dalits – “They are the members of lower caste in the Indian caste system.” This is the meaning of the word…

The Union government has appointed Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, the former Chief Justice of India, headed a three-person Commission of Inquiry to determine whether Dalits who have converted to religions other than Sikhism and Buddhism should be granted SC status. Two years have been set as the deadline for the Commission’s report. Let’s trace the history of how Scheduled Caste eventually came to include Dalit Muslims and Christians.

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Alleging corrupt practices, discrimination against a Dalit and inconsistent transfers within the departments have caused chaos in UP. Source: Bing…

Persecute, broken or crushed is the undeviating translation of the word Dalit, which is worn to define the class of…