For much of India’s history, the lower castes, especially the Dalits (once known as untouchables), have been routinely raped by the landowning upper castes…. 90 percent of rape victims in 2007 were Dalit women.

While attacks against Western tourists and women in urban centers have attracted a great deal of attention, rapes of lower-caste women routinely fail to provoke an outcry…. We will never be able to address India’s rape crisis if we remain blind to the machinations of caste discrimination.“