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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 ...
Untouchables, word for the Dalits or Scheduled Castes of India Untouchables (law enforcement) , a 1930s American law enforcement unit led by Eliot Ness Nicolino Locche (1939–2005), Argentine boxer and light welterweight world champion nicknamed "The Untouchable"
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.
Several observers see parallels between the issues of race in the United States and the issues of caste. When Martin Luther King, Jr. visited India in 1959, he was introduced by the principal of a school with Dalit students (then called "untouchables") as a "fellow untouchable from the United States of America". Though taken aback with this ...
The Untouchable communities are sometimes called Dalit or Harijan in contemporary literature. [25] In 2001, Dalits were 16.2% of India's population. [26] Most of the 15 million bonded child workers are from the lowest castes. [27] [28] Independent India has witnessed caste-related violence. In 2005, government recorded approximately 110,000 ...
Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers. If the Proud Boys are the U.S. far-right’s street brawlers, the Oath Keepers are the movement’s military vanguard, with Yale graduate, military veteran and ...
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.