Caste discrimination has been banned in India since 1948, however, discrimination continues, especially against the Dalits, who were once called "untouchables". According to the Migration Policy ...

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 ...

Dalits defeated an upper caste ruler in a battle in Bhima Koregaon My brother-in-law, who had gone back to the parking lot, returned with the news that the windows of our car had been shattered.

In the image above, a Dalit (formerly known as untouchable) woman worker limps past an open-cast coal mine in India's Jharkhand state, where underground fires have burned for over a century.

Jai Bhim draws attention to the repression of Dalits in today's India Jai Bhim, a Tamil language film, has been rated the top film by users on IMDb, beating classics such as The Shawshank ...

The news shone the spotlight again on the rampant sexual violence faced by India's 80 million Dalit women, who like their male counterparts languish at the bottom of India's unbending and harsh ...

While some of the more critical voices have pointed to the fact that Dalit (formerly known as untouchables) women and poor women have been left out of this movement, these voices have remained on ...

India banned caste discrimination more than 70 years ago, although biases persist, especially against the Dalits, once called "untouchables". California lawmakers voted 31-5 last month to approve ...

Some Dalit (formerly untouchables) activists have dismissed those claims, saying they have experienced discrimination from people of a privileged caste. In 2020, the technology company Cisco was ...

In the summer of 1968, a newly married Mr Pathak spent three months in a Dalit colony ... human being you have not prayed to God yet." BBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe ...

Dalits (formerly untouchables ... Communications strategist Karthik Srinivasan told news agency PTI that Zomato attempted a play on the word "kachra" without thinking enough about how it would ...

But whenever it's break time, things become oppressive. She is a Dalit (a community that is placed at the bottom of India's deeply discriminatory caste hierarchy) and says she often faces casteist ...