Chamār
Chamār. An untouchable caste of leather-workers common in N. and Central India.
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Rajputs , Rajputs
PRONUNCIATION: RAHJ-puts
ALTERNATE NAMES: Ksatriya caste
LOCATION: India (Rājasthān state and elsewhere)
POPULATION: 138 million (estimate)
L… Pariah , pariah •acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier,… Harijans , Harijans (hâr´Ĭjănz´) [children of God], in India, individuals who are at the bottom of or outside the Hindu caste system. They were traditionally sw… Caste , caste [Port., casta=basket], ranked groups based on heredity within rigid systems of social stratification, especially those that constitute Hindu In… Dalits , Dalits
DALITS The Rig Veda, which dates back at least to the second millennium before the common era, described the origins of the entire universe fr… Untouchables , ETHNONYMS: Adi-Dravida, depressed caste, external caste, Harijan, Panchama, Pariah, Scheduled Caste
The word "Untouchable" was first applied to this…
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