Lower-Caste Politician A Lofty Symbol in India. July 18, 2008. By Emily Wax. GADDOPUR, India -- On a muggy monsoon-drenched afternoon, Shakuntala, a rail-thin girl with bloodshot eyes, cooled her ...

The Untouchables of India: The Millions Without Hope. Posted: January 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, ...

Ashley Montagu (1942) and Gunnar Myrdal (1944) wrote books about our caste system. Bhimrao Ambedkar, an Indian untouchable who came to America to study economics in 1913, wrote about this.

About 6,000 Dalits, often segregated as "untouchables" in India's Hindu caste hierarchy, converted to Buddhism in Kanpur, 240 miles southeast of New Delhi.

For thousands of years, those born in India were ranked according to their family’s place in society. Formerly known as “untouchables,” the Dalit are on the lowest rung of that caste system. Now some ...

The recent Indian earthquake highlighted for Cose the persistent discrimination against the lowest level in the Indian caste system, the Dalit, or untouchables. Weekend Edition Sunday.

In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...

The caste system disguises itself by making us see race traits as real and immutable, and anti-racist work as simply the elimination of prejudiced thinking. The real problem, Wilkerson argues ...

India’s caste system was officially abolished in 1950, but the 2,000-year-old social hierarchy imposed on people by birth still exists in many aspects of life.

The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system; members have been treated as "untouchables." India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago.

In the caste system of India, the family you're born into can determine a lot - where you live, who you marry, the jobs you'll have. Sujatha Gidla was born in untouchable - the lowest caste in ...