Mota Samadhiyala, the village in Una taluka of Gir-Somnath district, which got infamous in July 2016 due to the flogging of four Dalit men by gau rakashaks (cow protectors), has now come up with a ...

Amaravati: Peace returned to Andhra Pradesh's Garagaparru village, where a dispute over installation of an Ambedkar statue had led to acrimony between Dalits and an upper caste group over the last ...

Stating that the recent dispute between members of the upper caste and scheduled caste communities in Bhatla village of Hisar district was a fight that started due to "spur of the moment", the Punjab ...

“Tum kaunse jaat ke ho (which caste do you belong to)?” Her voice boomed across the front yard into the night and an uncomfortable silence settled over the porch for what seemed like an hour. Every ...

It was a quiet morning in October in K Thottiyapati village in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district. The women herded goats in the fallow fields behind their homes. The men had left for work in the ...

The whole Jat village of Balla, a couple of hours drive from the national capital of New Delhi, is proud of the “honour killing” of a young couple. The whole Jat village of Balla in India, a couple of ...

Beaten up for stepping into an upper caste person’s farms Inderpal, a relative of the victim and the brother of the man whose finger was cut off by the Thakurs, lives in another house next to the ...

In Madhepura, 55-year-old farmer Kishor Yadav said that the Bihar caste survey would help counter “Rajput politics” more effectively. For decades, Madhepura in Bihar has been known for two ...

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is from Uttar Pradesh, says the caste system is deeply embedded in the villages and even he has not been spared discrimination, despite his fame in the movies.

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