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Anti-Caste Protests Continue in India After Dalit Student’s Rape and Death

On March 28th, Delta Meghwal, a seventeen year old Dalit — or oppressed caste — student at a college in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, called her parents to tell them that she had been raped by a teacher. The next day, her dead body was found in an on-campus water tank.

On March 28th, Delta Meghwal, a seventeen year old Dalit — or oppressed caste — student at a college in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, called her parents to tell them that she had been ...