Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against untouchability.
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The regulators get to claim victory while the Eloi get to continue their frolic atop the fluffy clouds of privilege and untouchability.
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Themes such as untouchability were tackled by Bombay Talkies's Achhut Kanya (1936) and yet again in 1959 by Bimal Roy in Sujata.
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"Karma was used to justify untouchability in classical Hinduism, " says Sharma.
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After independence from the British in 1947, India outlawed what was an age-old practice of untouchability of low-caste Hindus by those seen as superior by birth.
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