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| What is the ideological basis of untouchability? |
Purity and impurity. Forwardness and backwardness. Cleanliness and dirt. Local and regional. |
| Purity and impurity. |
| untouchability is an extreme and particularly vicious aspect of the caste system that prescribes stringent social sanctions against members of castes located at the bottom of the purity-pollution scale. Strictly speaking, the ‘untouchable’ castes are outside the caste hierarchy – they are considered to be so ‘impure.’ that their mere touch severely pollutes members of all other castes, |
