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Tests since 2023 find that chatbots and image generators reproduce caste hierarchy. Most are lab tests, not audits of hiring or lending tools in real use in India.
Students at a government college in Tamil Nadu questioned, on camera, a youth body's caste column that India's model donor questionnaire lacks. No reported explanation says what it was for.
India's law against caste violence promises special courts and two-month trials. Khairlanji ended with no atrocity on the record; Una took almost ten years to convict five men of 41.
India abolished untouchability in 1950. Surveys, audits and Dalit testimony show it moved into the rental interview, the hiring shortlist, the marriage market and the kitchen.
Tamil Nadu's SC/ST Commission has given Collectors a month to strip caste names from streets and settlements. For Dalits whose address told strangers their caste, the name is the point.
Colonial officials reserved DC Manna land for the "Depressed Classes". Officials say 190 acres are left, and Dakshina Kannada's Dalit groups say they will step up protests if allotments don't begin.
From 1892 the colonial state granted land to the "Depressed Classes" on condition it stay with them. Tamil Nadu says 186,000 of 1.2 million acres are left, and promises a commission.
Census 2027 asks everyone outside the SC and ST lists to write in a caste. Who sorts those answers, and which Dalits the list leaves out, is still open.
The Supreme Court froze the 2026 campus equity rules, but the 2012 rules, anti-ragging rules and the Atrocities Act still apply. What each gives you, and where to complain.
The 2013 Act defines a manual scavenger and, separately, hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks. Workers sent into sewers fall between the two, and outside its rehabilitation list.
Seattle and Fresno name caste in their civil rights codes. No state does. Where the protections stand in 2026, what the courts have said, and where California's case against Cisco has got to.
A 2023 survey in rural Uttar Pradesh found Dalit women paid Rs 144 a day for paddy transplanting, against Rs 290 for men. The gap rests on caste as well as gender.