Tamil Nadu Dalit Families

A 24-year-old Dalit man has died from his injuries after he was beaten up brutally by a mob comprising mostly men from a so-called upper caste community in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram this week.

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

On public facilities in parts of Tamil Nadu, a family radiates happiness from a poster that advertises "Namma Toilets" or Toilets For All. In reality, what the family feels is closer to shame and humiliation.

On July 4, the body of a young Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, was found on the tracks in Dharmapuri, northern Tamil Nadu. Initially reported as a suicide, his family and Dalit groups suspected murder by upper caste groups.

Hundreds of people today defied prohibitory orders to join in the last journey of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was laid to rest at a private vacant site in his native village of Nathan, where situation still remains tense.

The Madras High Court has ordered a second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead last week in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old had married a girl from the Vanniyar community; his family alleges it is a case of murder.

A second post-mortem report has been demanded by the family of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu. The first report had revealed the 21-year-old died of a head injury. He was found dead near a railway track on Thursday near his village in western Tamil Nadu.

The post-mortem report of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu, reveals the 21-year-old died of a head injury. Police sources have said that the death is a case of suicide.

50 Dalit families in Velayuthapuram who were all set to be integrated with the rest of their village in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district have got partial relief this evening. The 30 feet long, eight feet high fence that had been erected by the upper caste Rettiars to cordon off this colony of poor workers, six years ago "has not been removed", as e...

A 24-year-old Dalit man has died from his injuries after he was beaten up brutally by a mob comprising mostly men from a so-called upper caste community in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram this week.

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

On public facilities in parts of Tamil Nadu, a family radiates happiness from a poster that advertises "Namma Toilets" or Toilets For All. In reality, what the family feels is closer to shame and humiliation.

On July 4, the body of a young Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, was found on the tracks in Dharmapuri, northern Tamil Nadu. Initially reported as a suicide, his family and Dalit groups suspected murder by upper caste groups.

Hundreds of people today defied prohibitory orders to join in the last journey of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was laid to rest at a private vacant site in his native village of Nathan, where situation still remains tense.

The Madras High Court has ordered a second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead last week in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old had married a girl from the Vanniyar community; his family alleges it is a case of murder.

A second post-mortem report has been demanded by the family of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu. The first report had revealed the 21-year-old died of a head injury. He was found dead near a railway track on Thursday near his village in western Tamil Nadu.

The post-mortem report of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu, reveals the 21-year-old died of a head injury. Police sources have said that the death is a case of suicide.

50 Dalit families in Velayuthapuram who were all set to be integrated with the rest of their village in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district have got partial relief this evening. The 30 feet long, eight feet high fence that had been erected by the upper caste Rettiars to cordon off this colony of poor workers, six years ago "has not been removed", as e...