*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 ...

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DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.

Two journeys in Jammu, Punjab, and Rajasthan along the Indian side of the border with Pakistan in the early years of the 21st century brought this columnist face to face with Christians among ...

Cardinal Anthony Poola, 64, the Archbishop of Hyderabad, becomes the first Dalit to lead the body that represents India’s Catholic hierarchy. Dalits — formerly labelled “untouchables” under India’s ...

A court in India has sentenced six people to death for the brutal killing of a man belonging the country's Dalit caste, formerly known as "untouchables," after he married a woman of a higher caste.

As the Indian Sanskrit translation of the word (“oppressed.”) shows, the Dalit have spent many years struggling. Despite the circumstances, the Amsterdam News notes that “Rajshekar’s book was one of ...