“Dalit” today is the most widely used term in the English language and in scholarly circles for the South Asian subpopulation of former unfree agrarian servants, members of India’s lowest castes whose very touch was widely regarded to be polluting by those who consider themselv…
Dalits/Ex-Untouchables(6,368 words)
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Viswanath, Rupa, “Dalits/Ex-Untouchables”, in: Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online, Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. Consulted online on 22 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_BEH_COM_9000000009>
First published online: 2018
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