DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

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

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 ...

Why B.R. Ambedkar, a Dalit himself, ultimately embraced Buddhism as the faith best for him and his community. Last month marked the 67th anniversary of India’s most famous Dalit’s conversion to ...

India on Friday took another step closer to completing a civilian nuclear-energy agreement with the United States, as the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the controversial deal. The ...

In the winter of 1959, 30-year-old, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. headed to India to see the land of the father of nonviolent protests, Mahatma Gandhi. Earlier, King had finished leading the year-long ...