Dera Sach Khand has gained many followers from the dalit community in Punjab and is opposed by many mainstream Sikhs.

Kusum is a dalit, from the lowest rank of the social hierarchy that still causes deep discrimination in India, which does not help matters.

The preacher who died was from the Dera Sach Khand, which has a large dalit following in India of lower caste Sikhs and Hindus.

Jadav is a new kind of Dalit, the lowest caste in Hinduism.

The ban on Dalit leader Mayawati would run for two days, it said.

The woman was a Dalit, meaning she was from the lowest Indian caste.

Students also visit organisations working with dalits, tribals, women, street children, fisherpeople, etc.

What could be a greater reward than this for a poor Dalit woman?

It holds stake in the Tamar and Dalit gas fields.

Statistics show that each day in India at least four Dalit women are raped.

Dalit children are even made to sit at the back of class in some schools.

As Tharpa, I am no longer an untouchable Dalit.

The bodies of the men, four of whom were Dalit, were later found in a river.

Days later, another lower-caste Dalit woman died in the same state, also after being gang raped.

Sometimes I woke up screaming at night, covered in sweat. As a Dalit, she always faced humiliation.

Dalit bridegrooms are expected to take the route on the outskirts of the village, avoiding the main road.