The state's best-known case occurred in 1981 when an entire village of untouchables converted to Islam.
They were seen then as the "untouchables", far too influential to have to worry about the investigations of a few journalists.
India's Dalits (former untouchables), for example, who have empowered themselves through electoral politics, have been suspicious of the campaign's motives.
Dr. Pathak and the former "untouchables" of Alwar were invited to New York to illustrate that point and also be honored.
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They are a "middle caste" in northern India's rigid social hierarchy -- above the lowest untouchables but below the Brahmins and feudal landowners.
At present, 22.5% of college places are reserved for Dalits, or untouchables, who are at the bottom of India's caste hierarchy, and tribal students.
So far, his organization says it's helped more than 60, 000 "untouchables" and installed more than a million of its eco-friendly, humane toilets in India alone.
As an example, they point to the emergence of a small but growing class of Dalit (formerly known as untouchables, the lowest in India's wretched caste hierarchy) millionaires.
In King's book "Why We Can't Wait, " he recounts his travels to India where he expressed approval for that government's attempts to remedy the historical discrimination of "the untouchables" through compensatory programs.
"Just a few years ago, these countries were untouchables, " says Simon Mandel, who follows Central and Eastern European countries for Auerbach Grayson, a New York broker-dealer that specializes in emerging and frontier markets.
Disturbed by the health, environmental and social implications (scavengers are regarded socially as untouchables), a sociologist and social reformer named Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak started an organization in the 1970s to address the problem.
Many Congress members were more embarrassed by the fact that their party contested the polls in a seat-sharing alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, a relatively new group that claims to represent India's untouchables.
The most successful was Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro's The Untouchables - the key scene of which was shot on the stairs of Union Station, where Costner raced to catch a runaway pram.
In the 1980s I spent a day with Connery -- he was filming "The Untouchables" with Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner -- as he left the set to go to several appointments with doctors.
It is no coincidence that states with the most dalits (former untouchables) or tribes (such as Bihar and Orissa) have higher malnutrition rates than those, like Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, with fewer of these excluded groups.
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Most notably, two longstanding untouchables, JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon and star hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, are now facing intense scrutiny for their roles in scandals that have resulted in billions of dollars of investor money being lost or pulled from their institutions.
In one of the most celebrated cases of borrowing in recent years, the famous scene in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, when a baby carriage bumps its way down a staircase - itself a nod to Eisenstein's Battle-ship Potemkin - was reproduced in its entirety in N.
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