25000 Low-caste Dalits Protest Class Violence

Earlier this month, four young men were stripped and flogged for taking a cow across the road. The four men were Dalits, previously known as untouchables, and the lowest-rung in the Indian caste-system. It is thought the attackers accused the boys of killing the cow- cows being revered in Hindu culture- but villagers maintained the animal had died … Continue reading 25000 Low-caste Dalits Protest Class Violence