The Untouchables of India: The Millions Without Hope

Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of oppression. A powerful story of resilience and hope against systemic injustice.

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[martag]

In Poland, we have workers from India who refuse to work together or taking orders from one another due to their caste status. Imagine leaving your country to get a better life elsewhere only to have your countrymen bring the same discriminatory believes with them.

[karlgrimm]

My brother used to work as an undertaker. He said sometimes Indians living in America would still treat him like an untouchable.

[noneofyourbeeswax]

I am a Dalit, and because of my parents work ethics and their ability to provide for me and my education, I was able to escape this country. Now, I live freely without this fear of being discriminated against if I have to reveal my last name.

[isaiasabinadisosagarcia]

200 million people live like this. This is the saddest news I've heard this year, and that's saying a lot.

[theawesomeman]

I found out years ago, that a migrant friend of mine is an Indian Dalit.
He's a successful Computer engineer, living among the best neighborhoods of America, so it never crossed my mind that he is a Dalit. Though him being Anti-Hindu and not having anything positive to say about India, should have been a big indicator that he is a Dalit.
I only became aware of my friend's caste after his American wife informed me why he is so sensitive to words like "shit" and never introduces his his real surname to other Indians he meets.

[Kristøf_Kristøfson]

But if you say Indian culture is racist. Indian people get offended

[phillipescott]

If touching a Dalit is polluting for someone of higher caste, why doesn’t this protect Dalits, especially the women, from unwanted contact by those who believe they are of higher status?

[manasi]

I’m a dalit, born in India and now working in the USA. I was always ashamed of my identity; mostly because of the casteism I faced while growing up. I went to brahmin schools and most of my friends were brahmins but never really understood why I was being treated differently by their parents. It’s difficult to wrap your head around as a 5-6 year old kid but I knew something was wrong. I was really good at studies and was always the topper in my class; it could be because I always had this urge to prove myself in the back of my mind. Still I was discriminated in the college by my peers, mostly because of the whole reservation thing. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for reservations because my parents although educated didn’t really have much money. Today I am glad that I am able to take care of my family.
The stigma of being a Dalit never really went away when I moved to the US, even here I don’t tell anyone my caste because you never know how people might treat you. I do feel that I am living in fear of being found out but I don’t want to risk anything.
2 years ago I started to worry about my marriage prospects because it is hard to find men who are accepting and are mature enough to understand my side of the story; I had sworn that I will never marry a brahmin. I consider myself very lucky to have found that person who happens to be brahmin.

[drjagritisingh]

As a dalit woman whose parents were educated by Christian missionaries because upper caste hindoos did not allow them in classrooms.thank you for this video .i was the fortunate one to get education but you still have to face work based and education based harassment. Situation is lot worse than you can imagine. R****, lynching and murder of our people is common and do not get justice. We are stigmatized and harassed for taking affirmative action.

[texadian]

I had a professor at university (in Canada) who was born a Dalit. It was incredibly inspirational when one was aware of what all he'd had to overcome to get where he was. Excellent professor too! I took A History of Gandhi with him and it was very engaging!

[rishavranjan]

In Italian Mafia there is a saying "Power must be protected and projected". This sums up everything happening in India regarding caste

[Killeraholic]

Their caste system is so deeply ingrained they bring it with them to other countries.
My GF and a few of my friends work in retail and they all agree that Indian customers are the worst when it comes to how rude they treat the people working in shops.

[rickywinthrop]

I'm a plumber in Canada. I have never met a single person of Indian descent in the plumbing trade and was told that it was because my trade is considered the lowest of the low and only for Dalits lol. Sounds good to me, I have made a very good living here at the bottom of the social strata...more than most people in much "higher" fields of endeavour could even dream of.

[trekkienzl]

Back when I was doing my internship in NYC 🗽, a senior researcher I worked with who I will call "Cheryl" (because she kinda looked like the housewife from the sitcom According to Jim) is this 42 year old white 🇺🇸 American woman but her husband is a Dalit from 🇮🇳 India, who did grow up in poverty but worked his way up, moved to the States and now works as an immigration lawyer.

She told us of how one day, she and her husband came back to his old community.

Apparently, he was recognized by the "higher cast neighbours" and they were shocked and offended to see a well dressed Dalit who found success in America but it was also all the more shocking to see him with a white woman.

When Cheryl was alone a couple of the higher cast women confronted her, saying things like "do you know that man you married is a Dalit" or "do you know what kind of people they are", and other words to that effect to which Cheryl just laughed at them and said she doesn't get or care about the whole caste system and that to her like most other Americans, he's no different to them as most Americans see a Dalit or brahmin as just another Indian.

[crispyabhi]

As an Indian, I hope this video goes viral and we are shamed globally. May be it will have an impact.... I say may be cuz we are stubborn, backward and ignorant af.

[balasahebchauhan]

This is real Hinduism. Foreigners are amazed by Hindu Festivals but reality about Hindu religion is very different, very cruel.

[erueru]

The cruelty of humans against other humans is just astonishing

[Kaltagstar]

The story of that Dalit man at the wedding who was beaten to death by members of the upper castes for daring to eat in their presence is just absolutely shocking. Do the other lower caste's like The Shudra's get treated even half as badly?

[vibingdude]

Thank you for acknowledging.
Privileged kids on internet would say you're tarnishing India's image and goons will say youre dividing india.
But I truly thank you for raising this issue.

[tabc]

Making the Dalit children sit in the back of the classroom broke my heart. How horrible to treat someone like that.