The Untouchable

groupings are called castes. There are five major castes which can be broken down into 3,000 sub-castes. These sub-castes can be further broken down into a total of 25,000 castes. Outside of the castes are the achhoots. They are also known as the untouchables. For centuries, the system has…

I H. HAVE-NOTS: GENERAL MEANING The word 'have-not' is specifically used for those human beings who are deliberately denied of the means of livelihood by the those who welter in wealth. The term can be better understood if it is juxtaposed with its antonym, 'have'. Apart from its direct and literal meaning, it has wider connotations. In fact, all human beings are 'haves' and 'have-nots' both in some way or the other. 1. Have-nots: Genesis and Etymological Interpretation - The…

the crowd did not idolize him and viewed him as simply ordinary. Also, the basketball player’s, “hands were like wild birds,” thus making the crowd fawn over him (Updike 18). Updike uses personifications to stress that the athlete was virtually untouchable. As people, we cannot touch a bird flying, Updike compares Flick to a wild bird because when he was playing basketball the opponents could not keep hold of him, and he too was…

The people of India had many views on how to handle western culture ranging all way from assimilation to complete rejection. Many things such as religion, social class, and political ideology influenced an Indian’s position on whether to westernize and to what extent. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in a private letter following his experiences living with the peasants of India insisted that all western technologies and customs must leave with the British and all upper-class Indians must give up…

and philosophy of life brought and revolutionary change in the life of Dalits society. He gave those important political rights and social liberty to Dalits. But till today member of lower castes face the caste discrimination and subjugation. Untouchables are very poorly compensated for their labour and thus forced to live a pressurized life. They live poor life , clothe are unclean , houses are drity and unhealthy. Poverty made them bondage and dependent on a strong man of villages.…

The rules, restrictions, prejudices and values within a society can have profound impacts on an individual’s sense of identity and place in the world. This is exemplified in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You, set respectively in the Indian village of Ayemenem and 1970s Ohio. Both texts provide similar provocative insights to identity through the exploration of context and the construction of characters whose personal values are in constant…

intriguing phenomenon. In the book Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass readers can experience what it is like to be able to control dreams. Gangsters in the time of prohibition were very ruthless and dirty, which is clear to see in the book The Untouchables by Eliot Ness. These two books have many differences, but they both have objects that deeply connect to the plots. In this journal, the argument is why alcohol, animals, and the girl’s beds are the most important aspects of these two…

Mesopotamia, The Indus Valley was more cruel with their caste system. In the Indus Valley, the Priests were at the top of the system, followed by Warriors and Rulers, skilled Traders, Merchants, and Officials, unskilled workers, and Untouchables. People who were considered untouchable were treated like pollution. These people were considered to be so impure that they had to live apart from everyone else and had to sound a clapper on their arrival. Another similarity between Mesopotamia and the…

poetry better than her husband yet she was unable to express her inner feelings, experience and knowledge. She developed inferiority complex and said, “People praise them falsely only because a woman had written them”.4 In“Punishment”Dukhiram Rui and Chhidam Rui, the two brothers were hard working poor farmers. It was the rainy season .One day it rained heavily and Zamidar’s room began to leak so they were called him to repair it. They worked very hard without eating even they were not given…

Five struggling hours later, the Indian team continued to lose. Angered by the British’s superiority in cricket, the untouchable lay next to bat the final shot. Clutching the cricket bat tight in his grip and muttering prayers under his breath, he waited for the whish of the ball; Raj and his team anxiously watched the man. Hearing the ball coming, the man took the hardest…