Definition of Harijans

1. harijan [n] - See also: harijan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harijans

harewoods
harfang
hari-kari
hariana
harianas
haricot
haricot bean
haricot beans
haricot vert
haricots
haricots verts
haridashi
harier
harigals
harijans (current term)
harikari
harikatha
harim
harimanage
harims
haring
hariolation
hariolations
harish
harissa
harissas
hark
hark back
harked

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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