The Dalit Foundation, New Delhi, India | Philanthropy for Social Justice & Peace

The Dalit Foundation, New Delhi, India | Philanthropy for Social Justice & Peace: The Dalit Foundation, New Delhi, India
Written by Max Niedzwiecki (2009), updated by Andrew Milner (2012)

It was a ‘lightbulb’ moment. In a conference room in St Petersburg, Martin Macwan, one of the founder members of the Dalit Foundation, had just explained to a gathering of fledgling social justice foundations from around the world that the Dalit Foundation had redefined the term ‘Dalit’. For them, it no longer meant an outcast, despised and discriminated against under the Hindu caste system, but someone who strove for equality and justice. For one woman from a Europ