Since the 130 Dalit Das families united to challenge an archaic tradition that bars the “lower caste” community from entering ...

Breaking the shackles of caste-based discrimination, practiced in a rural pocket of West Bengal for nearly three centuries, representatives of 130 Dalit families for the first time set feet inside the ...

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Threatened, ostracised and pushed to the edge, a group of about 130 Dalit families in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district ...

Threatened, ostracised and pushed to the edge, a group of about 130 Dalit families in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district ...

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A group of around 130 Dalit families in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district have been facing discrimination for centuries, ...

It’s 10 am, and the village of Gidhagram under Katwa subdivision in Purba Bardhaman district, some 150 kms from Kolkata ... temple with my own eyes for the first time”. It was a team effort, says ...

The village, about 150 km from Kolkata, has become ground zero for a ... one of the members of the temple committee. Story continues below this ad Ahinsa Jain, SDO (Katwa), said over the phone, “We ...