BROKEN PEOPLE Caste Violence Against India s Untouchables Order online Human Rights Watch New York Washington London Brussels Copyright March 1999 by Human Rights Watch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 1-56432-228-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-61749 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GLOSSARY I. SUMMARY II. RECOMMENDATIONS III. THE CONTEXT OF CASTE ...

Caste system developed in ancient India. The four main castes are Brahman, Kshatria, Vaisia and Sudra. Below them are untouchables. Castes origin from Hinduism.

The growing economic success of some in India has created a chasm separating the rich from the poor, who make up about 56 percent of the population. Many lower-caste people--especially in rural villages--are still marginalized, with little access to education, limited resources, and unskilled or menial jobs as their only option. However, thanks to a long history of missionary schools and to ...

Swami Vivekananda explains what the caste system really is.

Caste System In India Caste marks do not, in fact, exist. The caste system, of course, does but the concept has been grossly degraded by 19th century colonialist historians who saw only its surface rigidities and made sweeping generalizations, (condemnatory for the most part), based on too little knowledge and even less experience. It is however ironic, that they never saw the parallels with the ...

December 21, 1998 ALLAHABAD JOURNAL Caste and Campus: India's Ivy Is Overwhelmed By BARRY BEARAK LLAHABAD, India -- In its celebrated, brainy heyday, Allahabad University was known as the Oxford of India. Among its graduates are three former prime ministers, one former president and the current minister of education -- an illustrious alumni roster that now seems ironic for a college majoring in ...