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

One of the few men who have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, ...

As the Indian Sanskrit translation of the word (“oppressed.”) shows, the Dalit have spent many years struggling. Despite the circumstances, the Amsterdam News notes that “Rajshekar’s book was one of ...

DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.

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 ...

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 public beating of four men from the bottom rung of India's social hierarchy has led to calls for an end to the caste system. The Caste Formerly Known As 'Untouchables' Demands A New Role In India ...

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