A Hindu sect (BAPS) with close ties to India’s ruling BJP has exploited hundreds of low-caste men in a years-long construction project, reports theNew York Times. A US federal lawsuit filed against the Hindu group alleges that the men brought to the United States under religious R-1 vi...
B.R. Ambedkar was born in the untouchable caste, a group of Hindus who were said to have been born outside of thevarnasystem. They were later coined asDalits, a Sanskrit neologism for broken, by social reformer Jyotirao Phule in the 1880s.Ambedkar experienced horrible caste discrimination in...