New millionaires hope to serve as role models for India’s lower castes Lower-caste slurs like chamar have become a badge of pride to be worn on T-shirts, caps, car stickers and tattoos.

AHMEDABAD: In an incident that raises questions on the ability of the police to provide security to citizens in the state, all 101 members of Chamar community of Vadgas village in Viramgam taluka ...

Also, initially, music companies were scared of the word ‘chamar’ and had problems with anti-Gandhi lyrics too,” says Dhir, who quit the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) because he got ...

Manohar Parrikar for the reinstatement of the Chamar regiment. After 1857 Sepoy mutiny, the caste and region-based recruitment were done by the British Government in the Indian Army to divide it ...

India's caste system, which splits up Hindus into different societal groups according to their work and birth, is thought by researchers to go back some 3,000 years. In the system, Hindus are ...