Untouchable Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

''This article is about the Indian social group. For the Treasury agent team led by Eliot Ness, see The Untouchables.

In India's caste system, an untouchable, dalit, or achuta is a person outside of the four castes, and considered below them. Untouchables include such people as leather-workers. There are various subcastes or jati within untouchable, the lowest ranking generally considered to be the Bhangis.

Harijan was the polite form for untouchable coined by Mahatma Gandhi which means "Children of God" (Hari is another name for Vishnu, a Hindu God). Untouchables generally consider this term to be condescending and prefer the name dalit, variously translated as "crushed", "stepped on" or "oppressed". The term scheduled castes is also used in the Indian legal system to refer to this group along with other non-caste tribes.

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1 See also 2 Further reading 3 External links

See also

• B. R. Ambedkar
• www.ambedkar.org
• Neo-Buddhism
• Dalit theology
• Varnas
• Jati
• Brahmin
• Kshatriya
• Vaishya
• Shudra
• Aryan invasion theory

Further reading

• e-Compendium on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
• Mari Marcel Thekaekara. 1999. Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis. London: Zed Books. ISBN 184277266X.
• Subrata K. Mitra and V.B. Singh. 1999. ''Democracy and Social Change in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the National Electorate. New Delhi: Sage Publications. ISBN 817036809X (India HB) ISBN 0761993444 (U.S. HB).

External links

• www.ambedkar.org
• Untouchable @ National Geographic Magazine - National Geographic magazine's coverage on Untouchable
• Google Directory Listing for Dalit

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