This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results

Women and the Law.

While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues tha

More than half the people who defecate in the open live in India. Around the world, people live healthier lives than in centuries past, in part because latrines

Caste is an institution of oppression and social discrimination specific to South Asia, more so to India. Central to the caste system were the status assigned t