Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

Recommended India may have reached peak Modi Read more ... Those who fall outside these groups are known as Dalits, also known as “untouchables”, forced to take the jobs that nobody else ...

The members of India's lowest castes have traditionally suffered harsh social and economic discrimination. Such discrimination is now prohibited by statute and is slowly beginning to give way By M ...

What were the key ideological differences between Mahatma Gandhi and BR Ambedkar over the political rights of the ...

A Hindu priest from a temple in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad made headlines for carrying a Dalit (formerly known as untouchable) man on his shoulders into the temple's inner sanctum.

Not only could it happen here, Indians say, it already has. Barack Obama Such complacency is premature. The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly ...

For the country's eye-wateringly expensive equities - MSCI India is valued at more than 23 times earnings - that sets up a lot of potential pain. Context News Diwali, a major holiday, was ...

Gidla was the first Indian woman to be employed as a conductor on the New York City Subway The memoir of an Indian woman who was born a so-called untouchable and now works as a conductor on the ...

and Kathy Sreedhar of the Holdeen India Fund, Washington, D.C. We also thank the many people who prefer, for their own well-being and that of their organizations, that their names not be mentioned ...