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Pariah / Outcaste
A more common and non-regionally specific term for outcastes like Kanthapura’s pariahs.
Untouchables Quotes in Kanthapura
The Kanthapura quotes below are all either spoken by Untouchables or refer to Untouchables. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Section 1
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Till now I’ve spoken only of the Brahmin quarter. Our village had a Pariah quarter too, a Potters’ quarter, a Weavers’ quarter, and a Sudra quarter. How many huts had we there? I do not know. There may have been ninety or a hundred—though a hundred may be the right number. Of course you wouldn’t expect me to go into the Pariah quarter, but I have seen from the street-corner Beadle Timmayya’s hut.
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There was something deep and desperate that hurried her on, and [Narsamma] passed by Rangamma’s sugarcane field and by the mango grove to the river, just where the whirlpool gropes and gurgles, and she looked up at the moonlit sky, and the winds of the night and the shadows of the night and the jackals of the night so pierced her breast that she shuddered and sank unconscious upon the sands, and the cold so pierced her that the next morning she was dead.
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Untouchables Term Timeline in Kanthapura
The timeline below shows where the term Untouchables appears in Kanthapura. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Section 10
...lampooning the government, reminding the crowd of Gandhi’s principles and affirming the Mahatma’s support for Untouchables. A man from the crowd announces that “our religion is going to be desecrated by...
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...obviously knows better. Ranganna asked how the Swami could accept foreign rule, since foreigners are Untouchables according to the dharma sastras, but the Swami argued that “governments are sent by the...
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Section 13
...speak Truth, spin wool and “put aside the idea of the holy brahmin and the untouchable pariah.”
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