Lower-caste slurs like chamar have become a badge of pride to be worn on T-shirts, caps, car stickers and tattoos. In Mahi’s song, she sings that chamars are more dangerous than weapons.

Chamar Studio founder wants attention beyond his caste. ‘Find out what I make, what I think’ Sudheer Rajbhar's creations, Baldric Chair (left) and Flap Chair (right) ...

Lower-caste slurs like chamar have become a badge of pride to be worn on T-shirts, caps, car stickers and tattoos. In Mahi’s song, she sings that chamars are more dangerous than weapons.

Less than a fortnight ago, on March 20, the administration deployed police forces to ensure the Chamar caste members’ entry into the local Shiva temple, from which they had been prohibited so far.

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"What is there to hide?" the 18-year-old told AFP from her one-room studio on the outskirts of the town of Jalandhar in northern Punjab state. "I am a Chamar, and proud of it," she added ...

Fighting caste discrimination in India, ... giving instructions to artisan Sahdev Vishvnath Netake at Chamar Studio's workshop in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai last month.

The Supreme Court on Thursday restored the scheduled caste certificate of sitting Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana, holding that the Bombay high court overstepped while re-appreciating the findings ...

It had also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the Amravati MP, saying the records indicated that she belonged to the 'Sikh-Chamar' caste. Supreme Court grant Image Source : File.

A shoemaker of the Chamar caste, all of his devotional songs were preserved included in the Sikh holy book, the Adi Granth, by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev.

Her case was she belongs to the 'Chamar' caste. On March 28, Independent MP Rana joined the BJP in Nagpur in the presence of state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Gourav Vallabh joins BJP ...