The word "untouchability" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the practice of segregating individuals in a society because of their supposed low caste or social status, and it can be used in any context where this is discussed. For example: "Untouchability is a practice that has been condemned by many governments around the world."
Yet he is drawn to probe boundaries, and the square's apparent untouchability, he said, symbolizes the state's desire for untouchable power.
But Mr Berezovsky has been outmanoeuvred by the new prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, a man steeped in even blacker arts from his years as a spymaster.Mr Berezovsky's untouchability rested largely on his ties with President Boris Yeltsin's daughter, Tatiana.
More helpfully, they pushed literacy and women's rights, and opposed "untouchability" and the caste system.
In the 1920s and 1930s others among the emerging Indian political elite opposed "untouchability", the rejection as sub-human of those considered "below caste".
Stick it on a nice cheap black Volga, put a fake antenna on the roof, and you too can enjoy your moment of sinister untouchability.
Such a shield would help their country to recapture the sense of untouchability that its geography, weak neighbours and power inculcated and sustained until the advent of "mutually assured destruction".
Harsh Mander, a social activist who has surveyed ongoing untouchability, talks of "dismaying" caste divisions.
And, after our episode on untouchability, I met the prime minister regarding the issue of manual scavenging [removing waste from dry toilets that do not have a flush system] and he promised action.
GAZPROM revelled in its untouchability.
He wrote a note for Nehru and his colleagues: "Abolish the salt tax; remember the Dandi march; unite Hindus and Muslims; remove untouchability; take to khadi".
As for "untouchability," this was declared unlawful in the Indian constitution framed after independence and adopted in 1949 50.
