As both women and members of the Dalit community, Dalit women face discrimination on two fronts and CEDAW states this is intersectional discrimination. This booklet provides an explanation of this…
Caste movies focus on caste in their storylines, and those in the spotlight are made by Dalit filmmakers who tell Dalit stories (High On Films, “15 Great Movies About Caste…
Palwankar Baloo (1876-1955) was a member of one of India’s first Dalit cricket families, who represented the country on the world stage in the early 1900s. The game’s caste divide…
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is an artist, organizer, and theorist as well as the executive director of Equality Labs. The North Atlantic Books author page and the Penguin Random House author page…
Suraj Yengde is a Dalit scholar and author of the book, Caste Matters, which was published in 2019 by Penguin Random House India. According to the publisher’s description, which is…
Discussions on the caste system in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh tend to be less than those in India, but caste-based discrimination have been reported by the United Nations bodies and…
Caste slurs are words used to insult people based on their caste, and the major social media platforms have banned such slurs in their written hate speech policies. However, enforcement…
A statue of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, in a report by Deccan Herald, is said to be the tallest in the world at 206 feet, with…
The removal of Manual Scavenging that is human waste by hand is a practice banned in India since 1993; however, the Supreme Court, in October 2023, acknowledged the continued practice…
Caste surnames are assumed to be last names that reveal one’s caste in parts of South Asia. While surnames may reveal caste, the relationship is not as strong as most…