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Unlike regional films, Hindi films are still dominated by upper-caste filmmakers and stories, even when they attempt to discuss caste discrimination. Article 15 (2019) is a crime thriller that stars a Brahmin hero who helps Dalit villagers by investigating the murder of two Dalit girls, and works to erase caste discrimination in the police ...
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonials Sharmila Rege: Ooru Keri Siddalingaiah A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India Sujatha Gidla Affairs of Caste: a Young Diary Sumeet Samos: Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader Sunaina Arya Caste Matters
Caste-related violence in India has occurred and continues to occur in various forms. According to a report by Human Rights Watch: inhuman, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste. Caste is descent-based and hereditary in nature. It is a characteristic determined by one's birth into a ...
Due to many caste-based discriminations in Nepal, the government of Nepal legally abolished the caste-system and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability," in 1963. [8] Untouchability has been outlawed in India, Nepal and Pakistan. However, "untouchability" has not been legally defined.
Caste-based discrimination in Indian education (3 P) ... Pages in category "Caste system in India" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
In India, a caste although it's a western stratification arrived from Portuguese word Casta and Latin word castus,is a (usually endogamous) social group where membership is decided by birth. [1] Broadly, Indian castes are divided into the Forward Castes , Other Backward Classes , Scheduled Castes , and Scheduled Tribes .
India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago. The issue is particularly important to Americans of Indian descent and to Hindus, especially as more Indians and other South Asians have ...
The Act is rooted in Articles 15 and 17 of the Indian Constitution. Article 15 prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste. Article 17 of the Constitution of India states that ‘Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.