Lowest caste in the Indian caste system.
1Dera Sach Khand has gained many followers from the dalit community in Punjab and is opposed by many mainstream Sikhs.
2Kusum is a dalit, from the lowest rank of the social hierarchy that still causes deep discrimination in India, which does not help matters.
3The preacher who died was from the Dera Sach Khand, which has a large dalit following in India of lower caste Sikhs and Hindus.
4Jadav is a new kind of Dalit, the lowest caste in Hinduism.
5The ban on Dalit leader Mayawati would run for two days, it said.
6The woman was a Dalit, meaning she was from the lowest Indian caste.
7Students also visit organisations working with dalits, tribals, women, street children, fisherpeople, etc.
8What could be a greater reward than this for a poor Dalit woman?
9It holds stake in the Tamar and Dalit gas fields.
10Statistics show that each day in India at least four Dalit women are raped.
11Dalit children are even made to sit at the back of class in some schools.
12As Tharpa, I am no longer an untouchable Dalit.
13The bodies of the men, four of whom were Dalit, were later found in a river.
14Days later, another lower-caste Dalit woman died in the same state, also after being gang raped.
15Sometimes I woke up screaming at night, covered in sweat. As a Dalit, she always faced humiliation.
16Dalit bridegrooms are expected to take the route on the outskirts of the village, avoiding the main road.