Need to include caste in conference on race stressed From: India Abroad | Date: June 29, 2001| Author: Bhog, Dipta | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

India Abroad

06-29-2001

Need to include caste in conference on race stressed

Some three years ago, a freshly-appointed upper caste district judge in the
northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ordered a ritual purification of his
office, since the previous incumbent - a member of the "untouchable" Dalit
community - was thought to have defiled it So for as I am aware, this
quaint little incident hardly raised an eyebrow outside the numerically
...

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