A New Democratic History, Rohit De and Ornit Shani show how upper-caste Hindus tried to protect caste privilege by presenting ...

When the victimsand witnesses are under threat to life and limb, the State needs to instil confidence in them and provide ...

In June 2020, news broke that the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) had sued technology giant Cisco Systems for alleged caste discrimination by two managers against a Dalit employee.

In a significant order, the Allahabad High Court has issued a sweeping direction to the entire administrative machinery of ...

How have the Dravidian movement, the Dalit movement led by Ambedkar and his successors, the Communist movement, and the ...

How Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement took shape in Tamil Nadu and why the state has done better than the rest of the ...

Section 703 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Why not include “caste” in this list? The question has been asked for several ...

It starts in the kitchen with food and its distribution dictated by a code of genderised hierarchy where males are the ...

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...

Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh govt to ensure that anyone who converts to Christianity automatically ...

Phule recognized the power of knowledge in overcoming societal challenges and devoted himself to promoting education for all.

With Dalit Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai retiring, India's top court will be down to one Dalit and one woman— with most of the judges being upper caste Hindu men. Over the last six months, ...