Asia Dalit Rights Forum

International discourse refers to caste-based discrimination as discrimination based on work and descent. This reality is seen across the globe, but it is often misunderstood to be a South Asia centric reality. Discrimination based......

160 million people in India are born outside the four castes of the Varna system - the oldest surviving social hierarchy of the world. They are called the "untouchables" They thermselves have chosen the name DALITS (broken people)....