Caste-related violence in India has occurred and continues to occur in various forms. According to a report by Human Rights Watch: inhuman, and degrading...
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Kodiyankulam violence occurred on August 31, 1995 when a force of 600 policemen attacked the village of Kodiyankulam in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, India and...
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which are integral to the caste system in India. It developed as a result of relations among foreign conquerors, local upper-caste Hindus convert to Islam...
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The Caste based violence in Bihar has a history of conflict between the Forward Castes, who controlled vast swathes of land, and the Lower Castes who...
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Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) was conducted for the 2011 Census of India. The Manmohan Singh government approved the Socio Economic and Caste Census...
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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms...
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Dalit (redirect from Untouchable caste)
of Indian marriages are inter-caste: survey". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 July 2017. "India's "Untouchables" Face Violence, Discrimination". National Geographic...
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The 2004 Kalapatti violence refers to the violence against Dalits by dominant-caste villagers in the village of Kalapatti, Tamil Nadu on 16 May 2004....
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scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In popular usage, including in parliamentary debates and in the judgements of the Supreme Court of India, this law...
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Mirchpur caste violence also known as the Mirchpur Dalit killings was an incident of violence against the Balmiki Dalits by upper caste Jat villagers in the...
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2016 Ariyalur gang rape case (category Caste-related violence in India)
was irked at Nandhini, a lower-caste Dalit girl, insisting on marrying her after she got pregnant with him after being in a relationship with her for a...
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Hyderabad". 18 November 2018. MN, Parth. "India arrests activist Anand Teltumbde over 2018 caste violence". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020...
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Adivasi (redirect from Animism in India)
Scheduled Tribes in India Patalkot Shompen people Tribal religions in India Barnes: "Although regarded by some British scholars as inferior to caste Hindus, the...
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Manoj–Babli honour killing case (category Caste-related violence in India)
ordered by a khap panchayat (khap), a religious caste-based council among Jats, in their Karora village in Kaithal district, Haryana. The khap passed a decree...
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1985 Gujarat riots (redirect from 1985 Ahmedabad violence)
property and buses were targeted by largely upper caste protesters. Beginning in March, communal violence also began to occur, as the city's Muslim minority...
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Religious violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group...
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In the 2012 Dharmapuri violence, a Vanniyar caste mob set fire to about 268 Dalit houses in Natham, old and new Kondampatti and Annanagar Dalit colonies...
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Marichjhapi massacre (category Caste-related violence in India)
deaths. During and after the division of Bengal, many fled communal violence in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and came to West Bengal. The first flow...
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Kilvenmani massacre (category Caste-related violence in India)
after caste violence, Keezhvenmani village waiting for daylight". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 May 2020.Meanwhile, at Irinjiur village in Anakkudi...
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Khairlanji massacre (category Caste-related violence in India)
the murder of four Scheduled Caste citizens by villagers of Khairlanji on 29 September 2006. The killings took place in the small Indian village of Khairlanji...
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and changes of clothes are in the lowest rank. Social class in Sri Lanka Caste system in India Caste-related violence in India Silva, Kalinga Tudor; Sivapragasam...
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dominant caste group targeted Dalits and their properties. They also claimed that the PMK and the Hindu Munnani were responsible for the violence. The Party's...
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Tsundur massacre (category Caste-related violence in India)
and Rural Violence in Andhra Pradesh Brutal Killings of Harijans in Tsundur Village of Guntur District Caste, Class and Social Articulation in Andhra Pradesh...
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Creamy layer (category Caste-related violence in India)
reservation benefits reach the economically and socially disadvantaged. Caste system in India Rajagopal, Krishnadas (8 December 2019). "Why does government want...
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Rohith Vemula (category Caste-related violence in India)
Backward Class (OBC) in India's system of Reservations, and his mother is said to be from Mala community by birth, which is a Scheduled Caste, but was adopted...
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Killing of Pranay Perumalla (category Caste-related violence in India)
had married a woman outside his caste. Kumar was murdered on 14 September 2018 in Miryalaguda, Telangana, India, in front of his 23-year old wife, Amrutha...
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riots Caste-related violence in India Dalit Manjolai Labourers Massacre Paramakudi Riots Sivaraman, R. (3 February 2016). "2013 Marakkanam violence: six...
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the Dalit population in the Village of Uthapuram in Tamil Nadu. The village witnessed violence between Dalits and the dominant castes during 1948, 1964 and...
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Udumalai Shankar murder case (category Caste-related violence in India)
"Sankar caste killing case: Kausalya's father Chinnasamy acquitted by Madras HC". The News Minute. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020. "India at 70"...
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Immanuvel Devendrar (category Caste-related violence in India)
National Congress party (INC). His time in the army had caused him to question the oppression of the Pallar caste in his district, which was particularly...
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