Caste Struggle.(Dalits, traditionally known as members of India's...

Newsweek International;  July 3, 2000 ;   Power, Carla Mazumdar, Sudip;   787 words ......Constitution long ago outlawed discrimination against Dalits. India has a Dalit president and more than 100 Dalits in Parliament. But despite quota systems in government...discrimination, they're beginning to fight back. The Dalits have begun their own civil-rights struggle. Inspired...liberation ...

Dalits can use English as a weapon: Namishray

The Hindustan Times;  December 30, 2006 ;     524 words ......litterateur Mohan Dass Namishray feels that Dalits could use English as a weapon in their...said that Macaulay was a messiah for Dalits as he opened the doors of school education...Namishray, who is on a visit to Bhopal. "Dalits have grown assertive and the scale of...

Dalits to embrace Buddhism over temple row

The Hindustan Times;  December 20, 2006 ;     237 words ...Kendrapada (Orissa), Dec 20 -- Hundreds of Dalits in Orissa will embrace Buddhism protesting...temple, irrespective of caste. However, Dalits are unable to enter Jagannath temple at...leader and former union minister told IANS. Dalits were earlier allowed to worship the deity...

Dalits embrace Buddhism in Orissa over temple entry

The Hindustan Times;  April 14, 2007 ;     366 words ...Kendrapada (Orissa), April 14 -- Around 1,000 Dalits in Orissa's Kendrapda district Saturday...administration despite a court order. About 2,000 Dalits of Keradagarh and its nearby villages...Students Front (RPSF), told IANS. The Dalits embraced Buddhism saying that though they...

Natural disasters affect Dalits most, says expert

The Hindustan Times;  March 13, 2008 ;     551 words ......all communities but their impact on the Dalits and other marginalised social groups in...and researcher. "Disasters affect the Dalits the most because of the nature of their...said that almost everywhere in India, the Dalits lived in the low lying areas, which were...

DALITS ON WAR-PATH

The Hindustan Times;  December 5, 2006 ;     595 words ......the Hindustan Times Guwahati, Dec. 05 -- Dalits went on rampage in Maharashtra over the...between Mumbai and Pune. Such fury of the Dalits took the police and State administration...the explosives situation under control. Dalits in the State were actually simmering with...

Dalits are the most targeted in UP, says report

The Hindustan Times;  September 20, 2008 ;     333 words ......of states where maximum atrocities on Dalits are committed, says a report released...level public hearing on atrocities on Dalits, organised jointly by DAG and CAG here...has been exposing cases of atrocities on Dalits while CAG is a state-level monitoring...

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: FOR INDIA'S DALITS, FEW CHANGES

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 28, 2005 ;   Sandhya Srinavasan for TerraViva*;   787 words ......India, Jan. 28, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- When dalits, or 'untouchables', were out in force...force? Some say that WSF Mumbai saw the dalits organise themselves like never before...Alegre, Brazil, which started on Jan. 26, dalits in the tsunami-hit areas of South India...

INDIA: TSUNAMI OR NOT, DALITS STILL SUFFER DISCRIMINATION

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 12, 2005 ;   Soma Basu*;   787 words ......assistance to rebuild their lives, but Dalits (the untouchables) who are at the bottom...and where there is a concentration of Dalits. "We are literally starving. Our crop...everything more than six months ago. But Dalits, who are mostly poor and illiterate, cannot...

'Atrocities on Dalits increasing in State'

The Hindustan Times;  April 23, 2008 ;     287 words ......India, April 23 -- ATROCITIES AGAINST Dalits are increasing in UP, says a report prepared...conducting a workshop on the status of Dalits. Ram Kumar, convenor of DAG told HT, "Since Independence Dalits have been struggling for their basic rights...

Dalits finally win battle, enter temple

The Hindustan Times;  December 14, 2006 ;     349 words ...NEW DELHI, India, Dec 14 -- Dalits finally entered the Jagannath temple...entry into the temple. On Thursday, 10 Dalits from Keraragada entered the temple...construction of the three-century old temple, Dalits' entry was prohibited allegedly by...

Continuing plight of India's Dalits addressed at U. Connecticut

University Wire;  October 1, 2004 ;   Vinyak Pande;   668 words ......The Human Rights Struggle of India's Dalits," Thursday at the Dodd Center at the University...system in India and the plight of the Dalits within it. For the second part, Webster...Minutes" edition that had a report on the Dalits of India. In the third part, Webster briefly...

Denied temple entry, Dalits to embrace Buddhism

The Hindustan Times;  January 4, 2007 ;     177 words ......temple despite a court order, hundreds of Dalits in Orissa have decided to become Buddhists...temple irrespective of their caste. Yet the Dalits were barred from entering the Jagannath...Front (RPSF), told IANS. Mallick said the Dalits were earlier allowed to worship the deity...

DALITS AGREE TO CELEBRATE B'DAYS OF AMBEDKAR & BJ RAM

The Hindustan Times;  April 3, 2006 ;     209 words ......the light of an announcement by the dalits to boycott the celebrations organised by the district administration. The dalits took serious objections to the announcements...much in practice in the district and dalits are not allowed to enter rural hotels...

India accused of discrimination against Dalits

The Hindustan Times;  February 14, 2007 ;     636 words ......ensure the fundamental human rights of Dalits, a New York-based human rights watch group...discrimination, more than 165 million Dalits in India are condemned to a lifetime of...is still social discrimination against Dalits in many parts of our country". "Prime...