The photograph is part of a black-and-white series titled "Broken" by Asha Thadani, who has been chronicling the lives of Dalits for seven years. India's 200 million Dalits find themselves among ...

Over the last month, Dalits (formerly untouchables) across India have been threatened, beaten and killed for seemingly mundane reasons, highlighting again how vulnerable the community is.

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Monday said violence against Dalits had increased in the land where social justice has been spoken of, day and night, for the past six decades. The Governor ...