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The Untouchables were special agents, also known as "dry agents," of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition led by Eliot Ness, who, from 1930 to 1932, worked to end Al Capone's illegal activities by aggressively enforcing Prohibition laws against his organization.
B. R. Ambedkar with the leaders and activists of the All India Untouchable Women Conference held at Nagpur in 1942. B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian social reformer and politician who came from a social group that was considered untouchable, theorized that untouchability originated because of the deliberate policy of the Brahmins.
Some Hindu priests befriended untouchables and were demoted to low-caste ranks. Eknath, who was an excommunicated Brahmin, fought for the rights of untouchables during the Bhakti period. [9] In the late 1880s, the Marathi word 'Dalit' was used by Jyotirao Phule for the outcasts and untouchables who were oppressed and broken in the Hindu society ...
Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility.
Untouchable, UK title of the French feature film The Intouchables ... And Why they Became Untouchables, a 1948 history book by B. R. Ambedkar; Music. Untouchable ...
The 1995-96 Kentucky Wildcats basketball team was one of the most dominant in history. Deemed "The Untouchables," the team only lost two games all season en route to winning the national title ...
In a Thursday press conference addressing the plane-helicopter collision that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan National Airport, President Donald Trump made an array of statements about past ...
The Tsundur Massacre refers to the killing of several Dalit people in the village of Tsundur, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 6 August 1991. [1] 8 Dalits were massacred by Reddy men with the alleged help of the police.