For more than 4,000 years, the Dalits of India were called “the untouchables,” the lowest of the low. The Dalits are at the bottom of the Indian caste hierarchy and are currently the oldest surviving ...

In millions of Indian kitchens pork, beef and offal, horrifying to upper-caste Hindus, take centre stage. Generations of ...

The public beating of four men from the bottom rung of India's social hierarchy has led to calls for an end to the caste system. The Caste Formerly Known As 'Untouchables' Demands A New Role In India ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

In their long struggle for equality, India’s dalits, or “untouchables,” have often exchanged their Hinduism for Islam, Christianity, Sikhism or Buddhism, believing that they will better their lives by ...

NEW DELHI – If all goes well, Sanjay Jatav will marry Sheetal in July. But armed police could become a large portion of the wedding guests. Jatav and his fiancée, Sheetal — who, like many Indians, ...

NEW DELHI-- Comparing their struggle with America's civil rights movement, India's low-caste Dalits are urging President Obama to take note of their suffering during his state visit next week. Obama's ...

It is midday in the sweltering India heat. A man tries to concentrate on his job: wading around in raw sewage to keep pipes from clogging. He begs his boss for a flimsy paper mask to filter out a few ...

LUCKNOW, India -- Her father was a low-level government clerk from a caste so poor and uneducated it was shunned for centuries as "untouchable." Her mother was illiterate. But the daughter they named ...

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 higher-caste woman. The bride ...

In an amateur video, four frightened men, stripped to the waist and tethered to a truck, are publicly flogged on a busy street in broad daylight. Their assailants accused the four men of killing a cow ...