"Untouchable" seeks power in Indian election

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.

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India: 6 get death penalty for killing low castes

An Indian court sentenced six men to death Wednesday for the brutal killings of a low-caste woman and her three young children, officials said, in a case that has highlighted the daily violence faced by India's "untouchables."

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Low-caste Indian group ends weeks of protests

Leaders of one of India's lower castes reached an agreement with the government of a western Indian state on Wednesday, officials said, ending weeks of often violent protests.

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2 lower-caste protesters killed in India

Police fired on protesters from one of India's lower castes Friday, killing two people and bringing the death toll to 43 after a week of violence.

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Lower caste protests hit New Delhi

Members of one of India's lower castes blocked major roads, burned car tires, and threw stones at police in several areas around New Delhi on Thursday in a continuation of protests in the country's north and west that left 39 people dead.

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37 killed in caste riots in India

Authorities invited leaders of one of India's lowest castes for talks as the death toll rose to 37 Sunday from three days of bloody demonstrations over caste classification.

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Group Eyes Lower India Caste System Spot

For a week, angry throngs from one of India's lower castes blocked roads with burning barricades, stoned police and clashed with rival castes to make a single, simple point: They want to be even lower.

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A man had his head shaved and was paraded through the streets of an Indian village for dialling a wrong number. The Dalit, or low-caste man, said he was trying to call a friend when he mistakenly dialled the number of another villager in Dani Ramjas, Haryana.

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The Indian state of Gujarat, which is BJP controlled, now moves to ban the book on Pakistan's founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was written by Jaswant Singh, India's ex-foreign minister who was now expelled from the BJP political party.

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A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in recognition of innovative programmes designed to teach women, adolescents a …

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KYOTO, Japan — For Japan, the crowning of Hiromu Nonaka as its top leader would have been as significant as America's election of its first black president.

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The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life.

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Dalits not allowed to use public taps

Reports from western district Rukum of Nepal says so-called high caste people have not allowed 25 Dalit families at Balle village in the district to use public taps for collecting drinking water.

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When Chandra Bhan Prasad visits his ancestral village in these feudal badlands of northern India, he dispenses the following advice to his fellow untouchables: Get rid of your cattle, because the care of animals demands children's labor.

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Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India's most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India's largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyra …

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Indian parents are aborting increasingly high numbers of female foetuses and allowing many surviving girls to die because they want sons instead.

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Police repeatedly opened fire on violent protests by the Gujjar community on Friday and Saturday in half a dozen villages and towns in western Rajasthan state.

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Among the Jat caste of the conservative northern state of Haryana, it is taboo for a man and woman of the same village to marry. Although the couple were not related, they were seen in this deeply traditional society as brother and sister.

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God Can Use You program starts in May 2008 – A Nuts and Bolts Program for Christians who want to serve

Dr. Pete Sulack, a chiropractic doctor, out of Knoxville Tennessee will begin airing a new kind of Christian program starting May 1, 2008.

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By Alistair Scrutton (Reuters) - For a leader dubbed the ''Untouchables Queen'' who runs one of India's poorest states, it was indeed a birthday bash fit for royalty.

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A mob of higher-caste neighbors, angered by the Bhotmange family's refusal to accept their destiny as the lowliest of the low, attacked their home. Mr. Bhotmange's wife and children were dragged out and murdered, their bodies dumped in a canal. Mr.

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A woman in western India has stripped to her underwear in public to protest over alleged abuses from her husband's family for not providing a dowry. Her in-laws were questioned by the police and have been released on bail.

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First-hand story of a low-caste Bihari girl's struggle to study - part of the excellent Daughters Of Bihar series on Rediff.com ........

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Looks like "Double Ravi" (my nickname for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) has joined the distinguished list of Hindu social reformers (Ram Mohan Roy, Vivekananda, Mata Amritanandamayi and many more).

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Now the UN will probably be accused of being "anti-India" or even "anti-Hindu."

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I listed this as "world news" rather than "religion." You learn a great deal about Indian society just reading this article. .... Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has initiated a process to bring about reconciliation between Dalits and upper caste Hindus.

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As many as 151 Dalits who had once converted to Christianity have returned to the Hindu fold after a religious ritual in a temple here.

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This story still doesn't get at the heart of the matter. It's not that Rodgier was Christian, or even American. It's that he was WHITE, or perhaps, not Indian. (An Indian American Christian could have visited with no problem and never been detected.)

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#1 - Violence and atrocities against Dalits.

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Only one issue with this...he is no longer officially Tibet's "god-king," having stepped down from active politics a while ago in favour of the elected Tibetan govt. in exile.

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A day after 200 Dalits entered an Orissa temple in the wake of a court ruling in their favour, the temple's priests on Friday said they would perform purification rituals.

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"Oyire!" This Marathi term when spoken with a tinge of contempt is an abusive way of calling a so-called low-caste person.

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