Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

Cardinal Anthony Poola, 64, the Archbishop of Hyderabad, becomes the first Dalit to lead the body that represents India’s Catholic hierarchy. Dalits — formerly labelled “untouchables” under India’s ...

DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 5 -- Growing up as an "untouchable" in southern India, Sanga Priya Pilliyar was forbidden to eat from the same plates or cups as her schoolmates from higher Hindu castes.

Two journeys in Jammu, Punjab, and Rajasthan along the Indian side of the border with Pakistan in the early years of the 21st century brought this columnist face to face with Christians among ...

Her father was a low-level government clerk from a caste so poor and uneducated that it was shunned for centuries as "untouchable." Her mother was illiterate. But the daughter they named Mayawati ...

One of the few men who have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, ...

As disciple and spiritual heir of Mahatma Gandhi, frail and wispy Acharya Vinoba Bhave, born to India’s Brahman caste, came to love the Untouchables. Like the Mahatma, he called them harijans, or ...