SocietyCaste divides make scorching summers harder in a parched corner of India

In India’s drought-prone Bundelkhand region, rising temperatures and dwindling water supplies are intensifying longstanding caste inequalities, activists say. Dalit residents describe spending hours collecting water and waiting for dominant-caste villagers to leave handpumps before they can use them, while officials and dominant-caste residents deny discrimination.

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