Sujatha Gidla has a master’s degree in technology from the Regional Engineering College at Warangal, one of India’s top technical universities and, after moving to New York, she worked as an app ...

N E W   D E L H I, Feb. 29 -- Every day at dawn, Girdari Lal takes to the streets to sweep the filth and human waste from the clogged gutters of the Indian capital. It is not just his job. It is ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

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 adoption ...

*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 ...

DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.