In the winter of 1959, 30-year-old, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. headed to India to see the land of the father of nonviolent protests, Mahatma Gandhi. Earlier, King had finished leading the year-long ...

LIKE America’s twenty million Negroes, India’s sixty-five million ex-Untouchables are going through a time of significant change. The differences between the two groups are greater than the ...

An Indian father hired a hitman to kill his newlywed daughter’s husband because he belonged to a lower caste, court records claim. Pranay Perumalla, the husband of Amrutha Varshini, was killed less ...

In the caste system of India, the family you're born into can determine a lot - where you live, who you marry, the jobs you'll have. Sujatha Gidla was born in untouchable - the lowest caste in Indian ...

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 ...

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KEEZHAIVANAGIRI, India — Muthu Vellaithevan, a farm laborer who is part of India’s untouchable caste, lost seven goats and a cow when massive waves lashed at his coastal village in the Dec. 26 ...

Pakistan Christians pray for Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five who has been on death row since 2010 accused of blasphemy in Multan, Pakistan. Credit: AP Photo/Irum Asim Customs and habits cannot be ...

NOT long ago, just after midnight one Sunday in downtown Bombay, I came upon a silent crowd of several hundred poorly dressed people grouped around a statue of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the great leader ...