Sentence examples for untouchable caste from inspiring English sources

"This is the untouchable caste of animals," he said.

K. R. Narayanan, India's first president from an untouchable caste, sounded this alarm in a recent speech.

The Dalits, who were once considered the untouchable caste and are now called "scheduled castes and tribes," are represented by several parties.

For instance, the Dalit community, formerly considered the untouchable caste, has been transformed through aggressive political representation — not by the willful reformation of the upper castes.

Reflecting upon his family's history of continual misery, he reveals that as Dalits, or the former untouchable caste, they never owned land.

Ayyan is Arvind's personal assistant at the institute, a wily sweeper's son of the untouchable caste with an affinity for mischief equaled only by his aptitude for it.

Mahatma Gandhi objected to the provision of separate electorates for the Scheduled (formerly "untouchable") Castes, which in his view separated them from the whole Hindu community.

The residents who still collected garbage — mostly women, mostly Matang, one of the traditionally untouchable castes — were carrying gunnysacks marked "UPS".

Yet social legislation has done much to alleviate the disabilities previously suffered by formerly "untouchable" castes, tribal populations, women, and other traditionally disadvantaged segments of society.

Almost three out of four rural women cannot read or write -- and only about 5percentt of the women from untouchable castes are literate.

Rohith's friends compared the exclusion to the old practice of villevarda, in which people of Untouchable castes were forced out of their villages.