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Discrimination and Toleration: An Examination of Caste Discrimination in India by Basil Fernando Copyright © Asian Human Rights Commission Caste prejudice is common among people of the Indian sub-continent. The author correctly points out Lord Buddha’s rejection of Indian caste structure...

Introduction Throughout human history the conquerors have justified their actions by invoking divine sanctions and declaring themselves morally, intellectually, socially and racially superior to their victims. The slave master with whip in hand standing under the shade of an umbrella used...

Nestoli, India — From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 7:54PM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 3:21AM EDT <!-- /#credit --> The last time Gaurav Saini saw his wife Monika, they were being led to separate jail cells. The police gave them one last...

The Struggle of Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians for scheduled caste status By Franklin Caesar Thomas For announcing the Constitution Scheduled Castes Order 1950, paragraph 3 as ultra virus and ultra motive against the secularism of our esteemed Indian constitution, Centre for Public...

Sikh religion is strongly opposed to discrimination based on caste. UN set to treat caste as human rights violation Nepal Breaks Ranks, Backs Draft Manoj Mitta | TNN New Delhi: If the recent genome study denying the Aryan-Dravidian divide has established the antiquity of caste...

Many members of Britain’s Indian community left their homeland to escape caste discrimination, but some say the problem still lingers. LONDON — In June 2009, at a protest rally in downtown London, 15-year-old Selina Dhanda proudly shows off a scar on her left arm that she received during a...

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The recent disturbing news about the widening rift between the Sikhs and the Ravidassia sect has made me ponder for days how to bring the understanding that we are fallen victims of the Vedas teachings. I welcome views on this matter which should be for the sole purpose of narrowing our...

The recent violence in Punjab has taken place as a repercussion of the shootings in a Ravidass temple in Vienna in which the Dera Sachkhand head, Saint Niranjan Dass, was injured and his second- in-command, Saint Ramanand, was killed. This hurt the feelings of the followers of the Dera all over...

Khushwant Singh Caste wars THE RECENTeruption of violence among sikh groups in Vienna and its repercussions in Punjab reminded me of a Punjabi saying: Where there is one Sikh, there is one Sikh; Where there are two Sikhs, there is a Singh Sabha; Where there are three Sikhs, there is...

CAST SYSTEM IN SIKHISM IF IT IS ACCEPETED OR ALLOWED. WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA AND WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH. With all the respect to all SPN members and management as a whole. Das just wish to know if there is more threads and discussion on cast system which has creeped among us to separate us...

source: IBNLive : Caste cutting: Clash of identities dividing Sikhs : Print Page Caste cutting: Clash of identities dividing Sikhs CNN-IBN CLASH OF FAITH: CNN-IBN debated on causes of a widening rift between mainstream Sikhism and deras. Punjab remained on edge...

Punjab Riots Expose Sikh Caste Fault Lines The widespread violence in Punjab over the slaying of a Sikh religious sect leader in Vienna exemplifies the mushrooming of sects and the caste fault lines in the predominantly Sikh state. Mr Sant Rama Nand was killed by fellow Sikhs...

Vienna clash may put caste in global spotlight 26 May 2009, 0420 hrs IST, Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN NEW DELHI: Caste fingerprints on the sensational Vienna shootout among Sikhs could result in renewed international pressure for recognition of caste-based discrimination as a global...

Indian-born MP wants caste bias banned in Britain Africa Leader Tuesday 12th May, 2009 (IANS) A draft bill designed to promote social equality must also try and erase caste-based discrimination that is rampant among South Asians in Britain, an Indian-born MP says. Virendra Sharma, MP...

http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 04/27/world/ europe/27hungary .html?ref= world As Economic Turmoil Mounts, So Do Attacks on Hungary’s Gypsies April 26, 2009 TISZALOK, Hungary — Jeno Koka was a doting grandfather and dedicated worker on his way to his night-shift job at a chemical plant last...

hi, can anyone tell me Sikh Rana(surname) comes under which category. Some says rajput and some Jatt. Regards

I would like to draw a attention of all the sikh community and main souce of sikhism teaching by our GURUS from Akal Takhat. Fundamentals principals and teachings by our Gurus and by GURU GOBIND SINGH JI MAHARAJ that we all are bhai sahib without any attachement to cast system or rituals of...

I know there has been a long discussion in similar threads and I will read them. But I would appreciate a direct help and answer to my situation. I am a turkish girl who accepted to follow Sikhism sincerely when I learned about this faith. After a couple of years of serious consideration, me...

Source: http://www.southasiapost.org/2007/20071031/features.htm Caste, Gender and the Sikhs By Balvinder THE Supreme Court of India recently confirmed life imprisonments for three Sikh men, accused of ‘honour kills’. While delivering the judgment one of the judges, Justice H.S. Bedi...