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Dalits/Ex-Untouchables
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“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 themselves higher. Precolonial India lacked any single term for Dalits, and the relatively recent English-language coinage “Untouchable” (Charsley, 1996) expresses a particular theory of caste according to which caste itself is u…
Date:
2020-05-18
