Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Court pulls up Centre for not filing a response during the long gap of 18 years

The families had been living in the village for 40 years; Muslim villagers claim the Dalit families had settled on a land near a graveyard only a few months ago

A month has passed since Kalidas died, and a case has still not been filed under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers Act, 2013.

Drawing on the subcontinent's history of faith entwined politics and the resultant consolidation of power in the hands of the few, Teesta Setalvad invokes Ambedkar, Periyar and uses her own engagement with communalism to argue that the battle for secularism in India simply cannot be won without addressing the issue of caste. First published in Communalism Combat in April 1999.

There's growing political consciousness, thanks to campaigns and marches in over 12 districts led by the newly formed Banadhikar O Prakriti Bachao Adivasi Mahasabha.

According to police, the incident occurred over 700 km away from the state capital on August 2 at the Government Higher Secondary Girls School, Baidhan, in the Singrauli district.

Family alleges teacher was enraged and beat up the 9-year-old boy after he touched a pot of water meant for “upper caste” people

The Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) intervened to prevent caste-based discrimination around the hoisting of the national flag on Independence Day.

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken...

A large chunk of land granted by the state to the marginalised has been acquired by dominant castes.