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- noun Plural form of
Dalit .
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Formerly known by the pejorative name "Dalits," I understand there are 166 million of them here in India -- about the population of America's East Coast.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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Formerly known by the pejorative name "Dalits," I understand there are 166 million of them here in India -- about the population of America's East Coast.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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Formerly known by the pejorative name "Dalits," I understand there are 166 million of them here in India -- about the population of America's East Coast.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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Formerly known by the pejorative name "Dalits," I understand there are 166 million of them here in India -- about the population of America's East Coast.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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Though it hasn't polled for all castes, India does count those on the lowest rung — known as Dalits — for special programs and quotas in government jobs and education.
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Because of this long-practiced caste discrimination, the Dalits are the most marginalized and excluded community in Nepal.
Dalit community faces threat to life for inter-caste marriage 2009
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Everyone that is except the Untouchables, also known as Dalits, who remain very much discriminated against in Indian society.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1.2 Billion People to be Cleared of Potential Sodomy Charges: 2009
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Economically too, the Dalits are the worst off, often doing menial jobs no one else wants.
Indian communists take to caste mobilisation Abhay N 2007
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But many caste groups complained the film portrayed them in a negative light because of certain scenes in which characters say untouchables, known as "Dalits," are dirty and fit to polish the shoes of their social betters.
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Prakash Jha, the director of the film, "Aarakshan," which means reservation, has agreed to cut parts of the movie that may be offensive to members of India's lower caste groups, known as Dalits.
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