‘Dalit Dreamlands: Towards an Anti-Caste Future’ is on view April 6–June 10 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (388 9th St. Suite 290, Oakland) and ARTogether (1200 Harrison St., Oakland). A Zindagi ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...

Nepal, May 12 -- Dalits, who constitute 13.4 percent of Nepal's total population, continue to face severe socioeconomic disparities compared to non-Dalit communities, a newly released government ...

There's a simple reason for that, says author Shahu Patole, a 62-year-old retired civil servant and a Dalit. "To upper-caste Hindus," Patole says, "we were not even humans.

Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

Statement by the International Dalit Solidarity Network * ... race has become coterminous with caste in the definition and exclusion of distinct population groups distinguished by their descent.

Big Number. 67%. That’s the percentage of Dalits living in the United States who said they’ve experienced unfair treatment in the workplace, according to an Equality Labs survey of 1,500 ...

National. The ‘Invisible Dalits’: Will The Caste Sub-Categorisation Change Dalit Lives? While the NDA allies and social justice party leaders like Chirag Paswan and Ramdas Athawale have ...

While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim and British rule, the suffering of those at the bottom of the caste pyramid – known as Dalits, which in Sanskrit ...

While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under Muslim and British rule, the suffering of those at the bottom of the caste pyramid – known as Dalits, which in Sanskrit means ...

In the fall of 2015, a group of Dalit survivors and activists from India began marching across 16 cities in North America—including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle—to “break the silence ...

Dalits, who make up 13 percent of the country’s population, figure at the bottom of every social and human development indicator, with half of the population living below poverty line.