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. ...

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

Low-caste Indians reject Hinduism, turn to Christianity or Buddhism. Overcoming police blockades, legal threats, and lashing rain, hundreds of low-caste Hindus (Dalits) converted to Christianity and ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Soon after the representatives of Dalits tendered a written statement to the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) on Thursday refuting media reports about mass conversion over the denial of ...

Kanti Sarvaiya left his Hindu heritage behind and became a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western Indian state of Gujarat. “So our family elders have ...

In their long struggle for equality, India’s dalits, or “untouchables,” have often exchanged their Hinduism for Islam, Christianity, Sikhism or Buddhism, believing that they will better their lives by ...

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 ...

In this episode of Blueprint Explosive Exclusive, we will be discussing Supreme Court Quota for Dalit Christians. Tamil Nadu Legislature on Wednesday approved a motion requesting that the Scheduled ...

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society's caste-based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their ...

Unions have a 12-point “charter of demands” that includes not only higher minimum wages but better enforcement of labor laws, an end to privatization of the public sector, guaranteed pensions and ...

Low-caste Hindus see conversion as their only escape from oppression. Despite opposition from government authorities and high-caste Hindu radicals, 50,000 low-caste Hindus, or Dalits, renounced ...

A Dalit man’s head was shaved and he was paraded around a village in UP’s Fatehpur by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists. According to reports, the man was also forced to chant ‘Jai Shri ...