Sentences with phrase «being an untouchable hindu»

This was particularly remarkable in - light of the fact that the village Christians» forebears, joining the faith in mass movements, had but the vaguest notion of what they were getting into — just that it was likely to be better than being an untouchable Hindu.

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Dalits who constitute almost 20 % of the Indian population (200 million), were considered untouchables as a result of the Hindu understanding of «ritual pollution and purity.»

His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.

The crop at that time was composed almost entirely of the lowest untouchable caste, the sweepers, who came unsolicited by the tens of thousands to receive baptism and the benefits of getting out of the Hindu caste system.

Untouchables, now called Harijans, have traditionally occupied the lowest place in the caste system of Hindu India; they were called untouchable because they were considered to be outside the confines of caste.

Such was their impurity that traditionally they were banned from Hindu temples; in parts of South India even the sight of an Untouchable was sufficient to pollute a member of a higher caste.

He was a Brahmin [member of the highest Hindu caste] who devoted his life to saving untouchables [the lowest caste] from the horrible job of cleaning dry latrines with their bare hands.

However, the strong sense of untouchable purity that determines Varga Weisz's work is not exclusively indebted to a Western heritage, but also draws from a Far Eastern vocabulary reflected in Buddhist and Hindu sculpture: physical flawlessness is almost always employed to represent spiritual importance.

Of 300 contributors to online surveys and focus groups, 71 % identified themselves as Dalit (formerly known as Untouchables — the lowest castes, located outside and below the Hindu varna system), 58 % claimed to have suffered discrimination on grounds of caste, 79 % believed they would not be understood by the police if they reported a caste - related «hate crime» and 85 % believed there was no legislation available to protect victims of caste discrimination.