untouchability

In the social field I have already referred to untouchability, which is the greatest social reform, In other fields, in the condition of women, what would have been considered revolutionary changes have been made.

The New India 1949

We have a bunch of power-drunk criminals in the White House who are not going to go easily from "untouchability" to vulnerability.

Beware Smoke and Mirrors 2008

But the most surprising thing in the world is that they have never seriously dealt with the cruel treatment going on in the name of caste untouchability which is clearly referred to in several Hindu scriptures such as the Vedas, Upanishads, the Mahabharata and the Manusmriti.

Information Age Touches the "Untouchables" 2008

Ravi Shankar initiative to eradicate untouchability Mangalorean.com, India - 8 Mar 2007 New Delhi, March 9 IANS Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, in a new effort to end "untouchability" from Hindu society, Thursday called leaders from all ...

Light from The Mother and Sri Aurobindo on complex socio-political issues Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

Ravi Shankar initiative to eradicate untouchability Mangalorean.com, India - 8 Mar 2007 New Delhi, March 9 IANS Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, in a new effort to end "untouchability" from Hindu society, Thursday called leaders from all ...

Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

Still, despite a ban on "untouchability" and decades of affirmative-action aid to Dalits, the rigid stratification imposed by the Hindu caste system is proving resistant to change, sometimes violently so.

In India, Resistance to Change 2007

Periyar, who died in 1973, was an atheist, anti-Hindu social reformer who founded the Dravidar Kazhagam, a radical party that, among other things, wanted to eliminate "untouchability".

Archive 2007-01-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

Still, despite a ban on "untouchability" and decades of affirmative-action aid to Dalits, the rigid stratification imposed by the Hindu caste system is proving resistant to change, sometimes violently so.

Brutal Attack in India Shows 2007

The party also supports the struggle of the nationalities for self-determination, including the right to secession and the fight against social oppression, particularly 'untouchability'

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

Brahman audience at Poona that if they want to be the leaders of the nation they must give up their worldly notions of caste ascendancy and their harsh enforcement of "untouchability"; or he will lecture a youthful Bengalee audience, intensely jealous of their own language, upon their shameful ignorance of Hindi, which he believes to be the future language of India and of _Swaraj_.

India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890