India: Church Leaders Deny ‘Reconversion’ Claim By Hindu Groups
Eurasia Review
By Bijay Kumar Minj
(UCA News) -- Church leaders have refuted a claim by unidentified Hindu groups that some 120 tribal..
Dalit, also some of them previously known as untouchables, is the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Several scholars have drawn parallels between Dalits and the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea and the peasant class of the medieval European feudal system.
By Bijay Kumar Minj
(UCA News) -- Church leaders have refuted a claim by unidentified Hindu groups that some 120 tribal..
Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday resigned from the cabinet and quit the AAP, alleging Dalits were not given..