These are the law and policies dealing with religious freedoms, caste practices, and equality for Dalit-Bahujans. This includes anti-conversion laws from various states in India, United Nations policies which India has ratified and more.

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Below are legal documents dealing with religious freedoms, caste practices, and equality for Dalit-Bahujans. This includes anti-conversion laws from various states in India,

Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities; and also the collective rights accorded to minority groups. Minority rights may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision.

Civil rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group, such as global women’s rights and global LGBT rights movements, or the various racial minority rights movements around the world.

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Below you will find links to information about religious freedom and caste discrimination in India. Most are links to reports or hearings by Western groups.

Reports & Info from India’s Governmental Bodies

Below are the most recent reports by the major government organisations in India which document discrimination against Dalit-Bahujans. They only occasionally note challenges faced by religious minorities, such as Christians. There are only a few official committees and commissions which provide this information and they are typically at least three years behind in issuing current data.

National Commission on Scheduled Castes
The report from 2004-2005 provides most of the data