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pariah noun castaway, deportee, derelict, exile, fugitive, heretic, offender, outcast, outlaw, proscribed person, rebel, renegade, scab, sectarist, sectary, tergiversator See also: derelict How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In some settings, people may eat meat they know to be contaminated, as was the situation in a poor village of Harijans ("untouchables") in India (8). Chapter 5 concerns Gandhi's attempt to persuade India that sweeping was the highest profession, and his failure to see that the Harijans ("children of God"), as he called untouchables, needed emancipation, not just a better image. The oppression of the Harijans in India is something widely known to most of us. |
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