Video: Being an untouchable

Carolyn Steel | December 2008 issue

This video features Krishnammal Jagannathan speaking about India’s complex caste system, and what it is like to be labeled an “untouchable”. The untouchables, also called Dalits make up one quarter of the Indian population and are shunned and insulted by the rest of the public.

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