CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 187-192 (6 pages) Drawing on more than a decade of multidisciplinary ...

I could still be that 5-year-old boy looking out the window that was made up of bamboo sticks. As I would stare out at the dark sky, I had dreams in my eyes, wanting to fly high. But as soon as I ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ethnic relations in Nepal today can be seen as the outcome of long-term processes of accommodation between local groups and a centralizing ...

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society's caste-based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their ...

In this July 31, 2019, photo, Tej Kumari Chitrakar makes traditional paintings ahead of Naag Panchami festival at her residence in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Chitrakar families in the Nepalese capital of ...

(New York) – Two recent incidents in which six people were killed show the Nepali government has systematically failed to confront entrenched caste – or descent – based discrimination against Dalits, ...

KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ever since the death of a young Dalit man killed along with five friends in what activists called a "caste-based massacre", Nepalis have been taking to streets ...

Why do some people consider others "untouchable"? Why do upper caste people sprinkle water to purify themselves when touched by a Dalit? This documentary film explores the caste system in Nepal as it ...

Despite outlawing the caste system in its 1990 constitution and banning discrimination against the lowest caste in a 2001 law, Nepal — 80 percent Hindu — remains a place where the concept of ...

Nawaraj, a 21-year-old from Jajarkot who loved playing sports and wanted to join the police force, was born into a Dalit family. He fell in love with Sushma Malla, an upper-caste, 17-year-old girl.

Some South Asians see the caste system as a reality in the United States and others do not. California State University and others have added caste as a protected category against discrimination. For ...