AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Dosa vendor Sunil Gagnath Sabkale watches over a fragile Buddhist temple across the street from a market where he sells his crepelike pancakes. The temple consists of a small ...

*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 ...

Representatives of the community, who submitted a memorandum, alleged that people are being mentally, physically and ...

Police register case against 16 people after stone-pelting erupts between Rajput and Dalit groups during a wedding procession ...

MUMBAI, India (RNS) Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western state of Gujarat. ...

Musician Ginny Mahi. Most of Mahi’s songs are in praise of Dr Ambedkar, a champion of the Dalit cause. (all images courtesy of Ginny Mahi Photography) This article is part of a series of pieces ...

Persistent caste discrimination holds believers from India’s most vulnerable community back. Prem Chand has led a church for Dalit and non-Dalit Christians in India’s most populous state of Uttar ...

Grandsons of Dalit leader Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar are appealing to the community to mention their original caste in the caste column of the census form, while identifying themselves as ‘Buddhists’ in ...

Anthony Poola, archbishop of Hyderabad, bends to kiss the gospel during Maundy Thursday service at St Joseph Cathedral Church in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Credit: Mahesh Kumar A./AP.