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Harijan

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Harijan

Member of the Indian caste of untouchables. The term was introduced by Mahatma Gandhi during the independence movement.


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Harijan is a euphemism for the low castes and untouchables and means people of god.
In the late 1960s I met a young man who had started a school for several hundred children in the Harijan (formerly known as untouchable) community where he lived in Delhi.
 
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