India’s ‘untouchable’ women face discrimination even in schemes meant to help them

Origins of India’s caste system go back thousands of year

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Origin: This outstanding portrayal of India’s caste system is hugely important to Dalit people like me

Based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, it depicts marginalisation as a thread that connects race, class, caste and gender

Yes, I buried my mother in front of my house

A social activist travels to eastern Uttar Pradesh to meet a marginalised community who bury their dead in their front yards because of caste stigma

Unpopular opinion: Ranajit Guha and Subaltern Studies writers were ‘caste-blind’, says section of experts

They covered tribal and Dalit movements and yet never delved into issues of identity and autonomy, the experts told DTE  

Barely a contrast: Yet another Gandhi hagiography

‘Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas’ uncritically romanticises and mythologises the historical figure 

Discrimination based on caste is pervasive in South Asian communities around the world – now Seattle has banned it

For now, this ordinance will help put the spotlight on this centuries-old system that denies equality to a substantive section of the population …