Leaders paid homage to Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram on his birth anniversary. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra remembered h...

If indeed Indians wish to protest against the most egregious of historical and current outrages, that should be ‘Dalit Lives Matter’. Dalit...

The movie has opened to protests by fringe organisations representing upper castes.

Among middle-class educated and employed Dalits who act as opinion makers, or young people in recent years, one can discern opposition to B...

The issue of transferability of votes has become a central one for the allies who were bitter rivals for more than two decades.

He also said that Congress president Rahul Gandhi "disrespected" the national song 'vande mataram'.

"There has been an increase in the number of atrocities against Dalits: from 39,000 cases in 2014 to 47,000 within a year," Dalit activists...

Survival of animosities that outlast their begetters creates a new demand for iron and steel in a world with excess capacity for those comm...

In Malayalam cinema, which revels in the polysyllabic names of its heroes that hint at or declare their upper caste lineage.

At the reform school, Kabali explains that he wears suits in summer too because he, of the underclass, wants to make a statement.

Caste-clashes are on the rise in many districts of Tamil Nadu. In March, a Dalit youth Sankar was chopped to death in broad daylight near t...

The manner in which Ambedkar's birth anniversary is celebrated and the speeches made by politicians are ample proof of hero-worship.

The caste war in IIMC seems to be deepening with both sections of students listing out instances of being harassed by the other group befor...

Sword in hand and a helmet protecting his skull, a young Dalit bridegroom braved a volley of stones in MP's Ratlam district earlier this we...

The rise of dalit millionaires suggests that capitalism can be more revolutionary in transforming dalit fortunes than socialist sops.

Disaffection among a large section of Dalits for the BSP may have paved the way for fragmentation of this caste group in UP.

Dalits, accounting for a fifth of the over 7 crore state population, still find assimilation into mainstream society a struggle.