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

Harold R. Isaacs, India's Ex-Untouchables. New York; John Day Company, 1965, $4.50. Under the laws of India, Untouchability no longer exists; it went out en self-government came in with the ...

Recommended India may have reached peak Modi Read more ... Those who fall outside these groups are known as Dalits, also known as “untouchables”, forced to take the jobs that nobody else ...

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and Kathy Sreedhar of the Holdeen India Fund, Washington, D.C. We also thank the many people who prefer, for their own well-being and that of their organizations, that their names not be mentioned ...

In India alone, close to 160 million so-called "untouchables" or Dalits (known in legal parlance as scheduled castes) are routinely discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in ...

Dalits are low castes who perform menial jobs and are treated as untouchables. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – Catholic leaders in India are complaining the rights of Catholic ...