untouchable

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 324 words | Copyright

untouchable a member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system. Contact with untouchables is traditionally held to defile members of higher castes. The term untouchable and the social restrictions accompanying it were declared illegal in the constitution of India in 1949 and of Pakistan in 1953.

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