Even today, most temples in India do not allow Dalits to enter. "I wanted to show people that everyone is equal in the eyes of god," the priest, CS Rangarajan, told BBC Telugu's Balla Satish.

Sabarimala is one of the most prominent Hindu temples in the country India's Supreme Court has agreed to review its landmark judgement allowing women of menstruating age to enter a controversial ...

"Politics and religion cannot be mixed," ruled India's Supreme Court in 1994. This, said The Economist, was subsequently "considered a decisive elucidation of the country's secular constitution".

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a grand Hindu temple in Ayodhya, in northern India. The temple stands at the spot where a mosque stood until December 1992, when it was torn down by a ...