Two journeys in Jammu, Punjab, and Rajasthan along the Indian side of the border with Pakistan in the early years of the 21st century brought this columnist face to face with Christians among ...

*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 ...

Cardinal Anthony Poola, 64, the Archbishop of Hyderabad, becomes the first Dalit to lead the body that represents India’s Catholic hierarchy. Dalits — formerly labelled “untouchables” under India’s ...

As disciple and spiritual heir of Mahatma Gandhi, frail and wispy Acharya Vinoba Bhave, born to India’s Brahman caste, came to love the Untouchables. Like the Mahatma, he called them harijans, or ...

LUCKNOW, India -- Her father was a low-level government clerk from a caste so poor and uneducated it was shunned for centuries as "untouchable." Her mother was illiterate. But the daughter they named ...