Explore how the Mahad Satyagraha influenced India's human rights movement and shaped constitutional ethics under Dr. B. R.

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home town in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention ...

How have the Dravidian movement, the Dalit movement led by Ambedkar and his successors, the Communist movement, and the ...

Today, Periyar’s legacy continues to influence Tamil Nadu’s social landscape, driving higher female enrollment in education, ...

Father Arul Valan, a Salesian priest who led a movement for the rights of a Dalit or former untouchable community in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has died at 54. Valan, who co-founded the ...

A sign at a Dec. 8, 2006, hunger sit-in by Christian Dalits in New Delhi, India, displays the deep roots of the caste system in India. Dalits are low castes who perform menial jobs and are treated as ...

KANNIYAKUMARI: Demanding an assembly constituency reserved for scheduled caste (SC) in the district, Tamil Nadu Dalit Rights Protection Movement is set to start a march (padayatra) from Kanniyakumari ...

Amnesty International on Thursday released Left Behind in the Storm, a report showing that Bangladesh is failing to ensure equal access to safe water and sanitation for Dalit women sanitation workers ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Dalit man in Gujarat has killed himself in a fresh protest over land, as a campaign for land rights for the low-caste community widened across the country.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made California the first U.S. state to outlaw caste-based discrimination.Caste is a division of people related to birth or descent. Those at ...