To get rid of this stigma, a lot of so-called low-caste people migrate to cities, and there they change their castes.

Trying to rebuild the party's coalition, she had pushed through a measure requiring that 53 percent of party officials at all levels be women, Muslims or low-caste people.

The Government made the move on the grounds that two massacres of low-caste people there in the past month demonstrated a breakdown of law and order.

It acted after a second massacre of low-caste people on Feb. 11.

The message of the R.S.S., he said, was egalitarian and modern; it believed in raising low-caste people and tribals to a higher level of culture.

In education, DFN has started more than fifty English-medium schools for Dalits and other low-caste people.

Now some of these low-caste people are going to school and getting better jobs.

He was most known for his epochal Temple Entry Proclamation allowing low-caste people and untouchables to worship in Hindu temples.

Pasis and other low-caste people assert that they can worship in any of the village's six Hindu temples or use any of its wells.

They were claimed by Christian missionaries and British colonialists as people who were treated by the ethnic majority as low-caste people or dirty-feeders.