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Post by Rishi Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:20 pm

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/caste-just-does-not-come-into-their-life/article5226337.ece?homepage=true

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Rishi wrote:http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/caste-just-does-not-come-into-their-life/article5226337.ece?homepage=true
thanks for the link. the article reveals the complexity of Indian society in rural India. In some ways this village is like an oasis in a desert and the situation seems to be worse than i had imagined. I refer for instance to dalits being denied hair cuts by a barber.

Caste harmony is nowhere more evident than in the barber shop and the graveyard. Dalits from neighbouring villages come to the two barber shops in this panchayat for a haircut.

In neighbouring villages, it is unthinkable for a Dalit to get a haircut in a saloon, and the barber would not give them one, says Birla Thangadurai, member of the district monitoring committee on bonded labour.

Incidentally, this article also delves into religion (and does not confine itself to caste). For instance:

In rural Tamil Nadu, Dalits and women are excluded from car festivals of village temples. Here, the car festival of Mariamman temple witnesses both burqa-clad Muslim women and their Hindu counterparts tugging the rope of the temple car; while men including Dalits tugging the other end.

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