Please enlighten me

In one of the news I read today a women and her new born baby died in Uttar Pradesh, India. The women was Dalit (lower caste) so the medical personnel wouldn’t touch her. The baby was born outside the hospital and died immediately, the mother died the next day. Please click this link to read the full story. This is only one of the many horror stories I have heard on Dalit’s. Unlike in India, stories from Nepal haven’t been this inhuman, that doesn’t mean we don’t have our shares of horror stories involving Dalit’s. 

I really need your help, especially all you Hindu folks. Does our religion say anything about being Dalit, or is it just a social imposition?  

Please do drop a comment if you read this post, I really need some information/feedback. If it’s our religion that describes someone as Dalit (untouchables), then honestly I will lose faith in Hinduism. There might be rich and poor, or white and black, but in the books of god all should be equal.