COIMBATORE: Residents of Ramasamy Street in Mahalingapuram near Vellalore have urged the Coimbatore district administration to construct public toilet.

The Hubballi Rural police said the couple, who lived in the same village in Dharwad, got married in May this year. The woman’s family was against their marriage.

A 34-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men over a neighbourhood dispute in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district, police said on Sunday (October 26, 2025), adding that force was ...

Despite constitutional promises of equality, Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) face persistent caste-based violence and exclusion. The National Crime ...

People from the lower rungs of India's strict social hierarchy say they're trapped doing jobs like cleaning sewers because of historical discrimination. https://p.dw ...

I want to sound a warning: a caste census not only risks diverting India away from development but could also undermine our foundational constitutional values. Instead of reducing the salience of ...

In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching ...

Almost eighty years after Independence, Dalits in India remain shackled by caste-based violence and systemic oppression. From brutal murders and sexual violence to everyday humiliations, the ...

Despite multiple opportunities over the years, a comprehensive caste census has remained elusive. The last full enumeration of caste was conducted in 1931, and the population estimates from that ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...