Lexicographical Neighbors of Harijans
Literary usage of Harijans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital (1888)
"Д FEELING is slowly gaining ^ ground that the recent violent incidents in
Villupuram (Tamil Nadu) was not after all a war between caste Hindus and harijans, ..."
2. Lok Sabha Debates. by India Parliament. Lok Sabha, India, Parliament, Lok Sabha (1839)
"When we go to the question of whether some other castes are also to be included,
many of them lead to harijans only. But later on, it was said that by ..."
3. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula (1999)
"In an interview with Human Rights Watch, he claimed: In the past, twenty to thirty
years ago, harijans [Dalits] enjoyed the practice of "untouchability. ..."
4. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"Gandhi tried to improve the lot of India's Untouchables by changing their name
from one that was a label of "inferiority and shame," to harijans, ..."
5. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"The just announced results of Panchayat election in a rural area in Gujrat confirm
the second proposition by the fact of the harijans wining all the seats ..."
6. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Himalayan Academy, Master Subramuniya (2003)
"... which promoted social inequality through a caste system that branded a whole
class of people (harijans) as polluted. Going against the way of the times, ..."
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