Three Christians, including a pastor, were arrested this week in northern India under a controversial anti-conversion law for ...

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday rejected Dalits' claim of converting to Buddhism. CM Khattar said, "No such incident has come to my knowledge. One person advertised something ...

A recent Indian Supreme Court judgment offers a ray of hope for Christians by curbing the misuse of anti-conversion laws.

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 6, No. 1, VARIETIES OF CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS with A Symposium on Caste in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Diaspora (Part 1) (April 2025), pp. 167-184 (18 pages ...

The Congress claims that Dalit rights are threatened by an ideology inspired by Manusmriti as they commemorate B R Ambedkar's ...

Police in a northern Indian state have arrested a Christian man for allegedly converting 230 families of Dalits (former untouchables). Uttar Pradesh state's police arrested Bajrang Rawat on July 17.

A sign at a Dec. 8, 2006, hunger sit-in by Christian Dalits in New Delhi, India, displays the deep roots of the caste system in India. Dalits are low castes who perform menial jobs and are treated as ...

As a powerful Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary in the Indian city of Nagpur, across town, hundreds renounced their Hindu faith and converted to Buddhism.

In a file photo, members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organizations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

The conversion took place at two venues and saw Dalits from Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Mehsana, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Banaskantha in attendance; due process followed, say organisers.

I am a historian of South Asia with particular interests in colonial and postcolonial India, racism and social exclusion, subaltern histories, and histories of democracy. My research focuses on Dalits ...