Riots Break Out in India Over a Dominant Caste’s Attempt to Gain ‘Backward’ Status 4 minute read Hardik Patel, center, and others at the Maha Kranti rally at GMDC ground in Ahmedabad on Aug ...

Citing some examples, K.N. Lingappa, former member of Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, argued, “Budu Budike, Vasudeva, Joshi and Gondaliga are the same caste by different names ...

The Backward Class, a film looking at the first ever class of dalit, or 'untouchable', caste children to sit Grade 12 exams in India, has its first screening in Vancouver on Friday.