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| | Dalit (outcaste) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dalit politician and activist Dr Ambedkar was influential in encouraging many Dalits to convert to Buddhism in order to escape the inequities of the caste system. | | | Because many Dalits feel they must have a formal religion, they have been drawn to other religions to improve their social and economic standing by removing them from a religious environment where they are excluded and denigrated. | | | Defined in this way, 'Dalit' includes not only low-caste or outcaste Hindus, but also aboriginal followers of animist religions, and possibly may have included immigrant communities that subscribed to beliefs that were seen as incompatible with orthodox brahmanist and Hindu traditions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalits
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| | Dalit Women and Affirmative /action |
| | Dalits may or may not be hindus; e.g., holiya and madiga are hindus; but so are former "untouchable" converts to buddhism, christianity, islam, sikhism and other religions. | | | Dalit women could not dress in the manner of other hindu women nor could they wear jewelry, and were also exploited sexually by upper caste men and as domestic labor by women of the upper caste. | | | Dalits were an even lower caste, the so called "outcaste" or "untouchable" groups, whose very shadow was considered polluting to caste hindus. |
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http://saxakali.com/Saxakali-Publications/dalit1.htm
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| | EFICOR |
| | The outcaste communities who were once considered by society as polluted and fit for nothing, made effective use of the Biblical images such as 'New Creation' and 'Sons of God' given by the missionaries to increase their self-worth and dignity which had been denied to them for centuries. | | | After that, castes and outcastes freely intermingled in Christian worship. | | | When the Dalit Christians began to live a dignified life the caste Hindus, as well as caste Christians, began to change their opinions and attitudes towards the Dalits. |
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http://www.eficor.org/publications/dristi_dec-mar03/dalitchurch.htm
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| | RELIGION AND DALIT IDENDITY |
| | Dalit in Sanskrit is derived from the root | | | The conversion of Dalits, in large numbers, to Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism, besides being change of religion, was also a search for equality and human dignity. | | | Today the term is used frequently and has become popular among the Dalit people of various religions and protest movements. |
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http://www.goethals.org/rdiden.htm
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| | Dalit Christians |
| | Dalit Christians should be accorded the same reservation and welfare benefits that are granted to the Scheduled Castes professing the Hindu, Sikh, and Neo-Buddhist religions under the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 as, amended in 1956 and 1990. | | | Dalit Christians live under the same system of oppression, deprived of justice and human dignity. | | | This third Paragraph was amended in 1956 and in 1990 in favor of Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. |
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http://www.dalitchristians.com/Html/demands.htm
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| | WHAT KEY INFLUENCES HAVE DEVELOPED DALIT IDENTITY WITHIN CONTEMPORARY HINDU SOCIETY |
| | This concept of re-interpretation of tradition was also used by Ambedkar, who saw the Dalits as the disenfranchised supporters of the Buddhist emperor Ashoka, who had been "outcasted" when Brahmanical Hinduism "reconquered" India. | | | One interesting "Adi" approach to concept of Dalit identity came from Mangoo Ram and other early leaders of the Punjabi Ad Dharm movement, who believed that their first step in forging a new Dalit identity should be to create a new religion; their central idea was that untouchables constituted a "Qaum"; an distinct religious community. | | | The word "Dalit" means "ground down", or "Oppressed", and it is true to say that this description of that portion of the Indian population is justified. |
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http://members.aol.com/kingsbridgere3/dalit_essay.htm
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| | Dalit Christians |
| | Although "untouchability" was abolished under Article 17 of the Indian constitution, the practice continues to determine the socio-economic and religious standing of those at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. | | | We see this, for example, in the Bhagavad Gita, which is regarded as the noblest of all the Scriptures. | | | The caste system having thus become sanctioned by Scripture, it came to be accepted even by the outcastes themselves. |
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http://www.dalitchristians.com/Html/dalit_and_caste.htm
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| | HIMAL SOUTHASIAN March - April 2006 |
| | Regulated by its caste and outcaste quintessence, ‘Caste India&; continues to be apprehensive of the idea of a shared India. | | | Despite encompassing nearly a quarter of the population, to the mind of Caste India, both these Dalit groups are social aliens, and must remain where they have been for ages. | | | More Dalits empowered could then mean greater economic growth, but even this potential dynamism goes unappreciated by Caste India. |
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http://www.himalmag.com/2006/march/analysis_5.html
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| | DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE UNTOUCHABLE DALIT COMMUNITIES OF INDIA |
| | Dalits which is the self given name for oppressed, outcaste and untouchable communities of India do not fall under the four caste system of Hinduism. | | | Many Dalits have attained caste liberation by attaining educational, economical and political power, yet forgot their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children are still in the clutches of caste. | | | Why I attempt to redefine Dalit is because, many SC/ST communities are not aware about who Dalits and what injustice and inhuman matter of atrocities, they go through for being oppressed community at the hands of upper caste. |
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05120043.htm
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| | National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) |
| | The girl came from the Dalit community and the boy from a non-Dalit community. | | | Namala Balaswamy aged about 30 years, was beaten, tortured and thrown into a burning haystack pyre by the non-Dalit dominant castes in Kalavakol, a village in Mahabubnagar district in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India. | | | I am Paul Divakar from the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, India, representing the Dalit communities who are discriminated against under the caste system. |
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http://www.dalits.org/paulroundtable.htm
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| | Viewing The Bible Through The Eyes And Ears of Subalterns In India |
| | Traditional knowledge as contained in the Hindu sacred scriptures was not to be communicated to the Dalits. | | | In a situation where Dalits and Adivasis are unable to participate in the literacy-based worldview of the Bible because of their semiliteracy or illiteracy, they live with and under oral versions of Biblical narratives that are corporately weaved together through the calculating and creative interpretations of their ears-eyes. | | | Although there is a clear separation between the first three castes, which are ritually pure and socio-economically dominant (referred to as the twice-born), and the fourth labouring caste, which is ritually suspect and socioeconomically dominated (referred to as the once-born), they together form the constituents of the Hindu human community. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2450
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| | Asia Times - |
| | Written in a simple, artless style, Outcaste traces the journey of Damu, the author's father, from a small village in Maharashtra to Mumbai. | | | Inspired by the movement of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar - the Dalit leader who struggled against caste discrimination and untouchability during India's battle for independence and eventually became the chief architect of the new country's constitution - Damu refused to allow his children to grow up uneducated. | | | And then, in a deadpan sentence fraught with emotion, the episode concludes: "About a month later, Saheb and Missybaba returned to England, but he was not able to take Memsaheb with him because she was half Indian." |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EI20Df02.html
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| | News |
| | I mention Dharavi not to underplay the significance of the rise of the Dalit middle class in Mumbai. | | | Jadhav, who left his Mumbai slum and became a respectable middle class citizen, courageously declares to the world that he is a Mahar from Ozar and comes from Wadala slum of Mumbai. | | | It is a story of low caste Mahars who migrated from their native village Ozar to Mumbai in the early 20th century. |
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct19/book1.asp
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| | Glossary: Glossary International Humanist and Ethical Union |
| | A freethinker is a religious unbeliever who forms his or her judgments about religion using reason rather than relying on tradition, authority, faith, or established belief. | | | A sub-caste of Dalit; the caste into which Ambedkar was born; esp. Marathi-speakers See also: Ambedkar, Dalit | | | There are four castes: Brahmins, Ksatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras, plus the out-castes or Dalits, who are not part of the caste system. |
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http://www.iheu.org/glossary
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| | The Hindu : An emerging voice |
| | So when Ravikumar, a Pondicherry-based activist-theoretician of the Dalit movement in Tamil Nadu and S. Anand, a Chennai journalist who's been exploring caste issues, combined forces to launch `Navayana', a publishing venture that intends to concentrate on caste issues, they decided to make a splash. | | | The story, written in the first person, explores the world Jadhav lived and struggled in through the eyes of his family. | | | ' follows Damu's journey from a small village, Ozar in Maharashtra to Mumbai to escape the persecution he faces as a Dalit. |
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http://www.hindu.com/mp/2003/11/10/stories/2003111000040200.htm
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| | culturebase.net The international artist database Viduthalai |
| | She is involved in Landless Labours Movement, Rural Women's Liberation Movement, Tamil Nadu Dalit Movement and Tamil Nadu Irular Munetra Sangam. | | | Her goal is to promote citizens' movements and empower women to engage in political work. | | | Viduthalai - Dalit theatre group from Tamil Nadu, India. |
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http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1302
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| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Christian and Muslim Dalits backed by fellow Dalits from other religions |
| | What Christian Dalits want, he said, “is freedom from the unjust discrimination based on faith”. | | | Muslim Pasminda Samaj leader Ali Anwar noted that Muslim Dalits are organising to assert their rights. | | | The Catholic activist went further and said that “untouchability is a humiliating and a shameful malady caused by deep-rooted prejudice, which does not disappear with the change of faith.” To remedy the situation, Mr Dayal strongly supports affirmative action and quotas for Dalits in private sector. |
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http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=2750
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| | Dalit and Hinduism |
| | According to Manu Smriti, 'Outcasted persons have no share in inheritance.'[ 2 ] The orthodox Brahmans still believe, if the shadow of a Dalit falls on them, they are polluted and will have to purify them by sprinkling over themse1ves water from the holy river, the Ganges [ 3 ]. | | | He affirms that the members of three castes, the Brahman, the Kshatriya, and the Vashya, are twice-born; the fourth, the Sudra, once-born; there is no fifth.' All others are outcastes. | | | [4] i.e., original Indians: Dalits, Sudras, tribal people. |
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http://muslimsonline.com/babri/dalit.htm
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| | D.B. Sagar Bishwakarma, president of National Dalit Federation in Nepal, said the dalit in the Hindu kingdom "are not free to choose their own occupation." He illustrated this by saying that "if a dalit teacher goes to a village, upper-caste parents will not send their children to school." | | | The caste system is a reality in much of South Asia, wherever Hindus are found in significant numbers, but it is entrenched most strongly in Hindu-majority India. | | | According to P.P. Sivapragasam, secretary of Human Development Organization in Sri Lanka, the descendants of Tamils imported from India in the 19th century by British colonizers as laborers in tea and coffee plantations now form a dalit community of about 1.3 million on the island. |
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http://www.tgmmt.org/ucanews/0104/012004.htm
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| | Dalit theology |
| | Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in India in the 1980s. | | | Dalit Theology: A Historical Appraisal by Rev. George Oommen, Indian Church History Review, Vol. | | | Dalit theology typically includes the additional viewpoint that Jesus himself was Dalit or outcaste. |
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http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/d/da/dalit_theology.html
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| | Dalit Solidarity |
| | Their humanity was deprived by the upper caste community and they become their property to be used and exploited. | | | To develop youth and adult leaders to promote social justice and empowerment for the Dalit people, through historical and cultural studies and through coordination of productive activities that focus on a better future for the population. | | | Therefore, the dalits are oppressed in many ways even in this twenty first century. |
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http://www.dalitsolidarity.org/html/mission_statement.htm
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| | The Hindu : Forging one's own destiny |
| | Outcaste goes beyond the horrors of untouchability to narrate Damodar Jadhav's determination to forge for his children a destiny that was never ordained, writes SHANTA GOKHALE. | | | I am just Apoorva, not tied down by race, religion or caste." But her father, Dr. Narendra Jadhav, the author of Outcaste, is not so sure. | | | Finally, Outcaste is an impeccably produced book, miraculously errorless. |
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http://www.hindu.com/lr/2003/11/02/stories/2003110200310300.htm
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| | aicc Charter |
| | Hot from OUP's press is Akkarmashi: The Outcaste, Sharankumar Limbale's life-story. | | | What would go a long a way in sensitising young upper caste minds, according to him, is introducing Dalit writing from Ambedkar to Omprakash Valmiki from the kindergarten to PG level. | | | Arundhati Roy, whose God of Small Things features a Dalit character Velutha, of course has no problems, but she cautions: |
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http://www.aiccindia.org/art41.html
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| | Outcaste - Jadhav, Narendra |
| | It also examines Dalit issues in the context of the Dalit's awakening spearheaded by the champion of human rights, Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Independence movement, the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhiji's relation with Ambedkar, the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism in 1956, and caste in its contemporary reality. | | | This book is much more than a personal recounting of the downside of the caste divide in India. | | | At one level, it is a loving tribute from a son to his father. |
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http://www.gobookshopping.com/BookDetails.asp?bookid=217103&cateid=JBHB1
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| | Dalit Freedom Network : Clay Cup |
| | These cups are made by the Dalit community outside of Hyderabad, India. | | | Clay cups are commonly used by establishments in India and are provided exclusively for the Dalits. | | | The term Dalit is an ancient Marathi (a West Indian language) word that may be defined as “ground” or “broken in pieces” It refers to people who have been broken, or ground down by those above them in a deliberate and active way. |
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http://www.dalitnetwork.org/Documents/Art2ClayCup.html
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| | The Hindu : Even God is an 'outcaste' here |
| | Even elders of the community were forced to touch the feet of upper caste people and seek pardon for the `crime' they committed, in addition to a fine of Rs. | | | The Hindu : Even God is an 'outcaste' here | | | The path to the Dalits' fields, which are about two kilometers from the village, is through the fields of the upper castes. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2001/04/30/stories/0230000p.htm
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| | home of outcaste |
| | We believe education of the Dalit children, who would otherwise not be able to attend school is paramount in promoting their human rights and empowering them to become leaders. | | | The poorest of the poor and the most oppressed of society these Indian people need your help. | | | is a non-profit organization affecting the lives of Dalit children by providing an education. |
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http://outcaste.org
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| | Child Sponsorship System |
| | Today, India's Dalits comprise nearly 1/4 of the total population, a massive 250 million men, women, and children. | | | The Dalits comprise the "outcaste" of Indian society - the "untouchables" - those called the "unborn" - it would be better off if they had never been born. | | | It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in society; it compels him to live in dungeons and seclusion; it prevents him from educating himself and following a profession of his choice. |
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http://www.dalitchild.com
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| | Oxford University Press |
| | A reflection of the darker side of India, this novel is a bitter critique of the lack of compassion that the lower castes have endured for centuries. | | | As a first-person account of the struggle against poverty, deprivation, discrimination and violence, The Outcaste captures the dehumanizing impact of caste oppression in Hindu society. | | | An acknowledged masterpiece in the Mahar dialect, The Outcaste asserts the Dalit inner quest for identity using original language, idiom, metaphor and imagery. |
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http://www.oup.com/isbn/0-19-566548-1?view=in
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| | Dalit writing makes its mark csmonitor.com |
| | In rural India, Dalits cannot draw water from the same well as those from upper castes or inhabit the same spaces. | | | This growing market will benefit future writers as well as the entire Dalit community, says Gail Omvedt, a scholar of Dalit issues who is writing an academic paper on the anticaste movement. | | | The author, Narendra Jadhav, head of economic research at the Reserve Bank of India, is also a Dalit or "untouchable," a member of the bottom rung of India's centuries-old caste system. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0815/p15s01-lire.htm
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| | The Book Review India |
| | The varkari tradition is a tradition of belief and worship that is still a living part of the Marathi speaking culture. | | | Saraswativijayam by Potheri Kunhambu (a dalit writer of the 19th century). | | | It is because his poetry records a peculiar dichotomy: his poignant awareness and questioning of his outcaste marginality, simultaneously coupled with a realization of vitthal's need and love for him, an untouchable, that it assumes significance. |
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http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/publications.php
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| | Chandala |
| | Chandala candala (Sanskrit) A member of a mixed caste, or people without caste, an outcaste. | | | Especially in ancient India the term applied to one of the lowest and most despised status (sometimes described as being born from a Sudra father and a Brahmin mother). | | | The outcastes were generally of the aboriginal native tribes. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/chandala
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| | Dalit Solidarity - St. Patrick's Residential Home |
| | Socially the kids are considered to be “OUTCASTE” under the caste system of India. | | | Dalit Solidarity has established a residential home in June 2001 for the dalit children who are outcaste in social stratification of India. | | | These children who are at the bottom of the social ladder are deprived of their basic rights and basic needs of life. |
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http://www.dalitsolidarity.org/html/residential_home.htm
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| | Dalit Did You Mean dalit |
| | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page. | | | The Dalit (outcaste) or "untouchable" population in India and Nepal. |
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http://www.did-you-mean.com/Dalit.html
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| | The Ultimate Pariah Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference |
| | The Pariah or Pariar people are a large tribal group in India; they are members of the Dalit or formerly "untouchable" class of southern India's Tamil Nadu state. | | | The term "pariah" has gained widespread use as an analogy, especially in the phrase "social pariah", as a term for anyone excluded from society, such as the homeless, or a social group. |
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http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/Pariah
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| | Harijan |
| | These are called scheduled classes, untouchables, jatihita ("outcaste"), chandalas (specifically those who handle corpses) and harijan, a name given by Mahatma Gandhi, meaning "children of God." "Untouchable" jatis included the nishada (hunter), kaivarta (fisherman) and karavara (leather worker). | | | In modern times there is also a large group (oneseventh of India's population in 1981) outside the four varnas. | | | untouchables, jatihita ("outcaste"), chandalas (specifically those who handle corpses) and harijan, a |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/harijan
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| | Untouchable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dalit (outcaste), formerly or derogatively, populations of India and Nepal outside the caste system | | | The Untouchables, the Treasury agent team led by Eliot Ness featured in the self-named book, television series, and motion picture. |
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