The Untouchables Bashny.Net

They clean our garbage, sweep the streets, clean the drain, load and unload trucks. They - "Achyut" - untouchables, members of a particular caste, which is at the bottom of traditional Hindu society. In India, Mahatma Gandhi called these people working as cleaners and scavengers public places, "Harwich" or "children of God." In 1853, when the company Great Indian Peninsula Rail Company built the first railway line across the Indian subcontinent, the British colonial authorities lured these pariahs to his promises of better working conditions so that they worked at railway stations and in offices throughout the peninsula. But gradually Harijans returned to its primordial occupation - garbage collection. In Bangladesh untouchables busy with their work almost from birth. They do not like it, but most of them have no other choice, because the untouchables isolated from "decent" society of social, economic, political and psychological factors.

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1) They are women in the villages are selected untouchable before dawn and carried about on the set of points in the city, where they sweep the roads and sidewalks. Therefore, waking up in the morning, the citizens will see their city relatively clean.





2)'Uzza Das cleans sewer. He and about 5 and a half million scavengers of the untouchables were still in Bangladesh since colonial times. Their duties are the same - to make "dirty" work, such as cremation of the dead, cleaning toilets, removal of dead animals from the city streets, purging sewers and sewage systems, etc.



3)'Uzza Das cleans the underground sewer.



4) Mithun Das looking for debris that scored an underground sewer.



5) in alcoholics Badal Das, a very simple dream. He hopes that, unlike himself, and his father, grandfathers and great grandfathers for centuries, his youngest son Kvaran Das, who is now 8, will not dustman, and someone else. Badal have 3 sons: the elder works as a janitor at a garment factory, average only know that playing a musical instrument and worship Rama, and the youngest goes to second grade school, sponsored by City Corporation of Chittagong.



6) Rita Das posing in his home. She works as a cleaner in the company's daily wage Chittagong City Corporation. Her husband lost his job because of the janitor that was missing for several days due to illness.



7) Old haridzhanki sing a song in the internal language of their caste, to appease the goddess Shitlu. Shitla - another manifestation of the goddess Kali. They sing and worship Shitle to recover from measles. To the doctor they do not address this problem.



8) Lakshmi Das devotes his granddaughter Ghoti - stone, worshiped by untouchables. This is the tradition of the people of this caste - devote newborns stone Ghoti.



9) A young scavenger Krishna plays a role in the traditional play "Krishnaleela" (dedicated to the romance between Radha and Krishna). Krishna - the hero of the epic "Mahabharata". Krishna and Radha worship any Hindu caste.



10) Ravi Das stabbed himself thorn cheeks. He made a vow to the god Rama would do it if it turns a kind of desire. Such rituals - a common occurrence among the Harijans.



11) Bride. Untouchable is not permitted to marry any of caste, standing on the Hindu social ladder higher than they. Since Harijana are at the bottom, they may marry only among themselves.



12) Kalicharan Panda Maharaj died at the age of 97 in the settlement of scavengers in Chittagong. He was one of five elders of the village. It is said that he was the last Indian who moved from India to Bangladesh before separating in 1947



13) Swapna Das went to the hospital with acute abdominal pain. Because of this, it has not been 3 days at work. Swapna is very afraid that her name removed from the list of employees City Corporation. She has worked in the company for 9 years, but is framed as a temporary worker, although by law, after the first 3 months of work she had to provide a permanent position.



14) Kvaran Das, son Badal Das, goes to second grade school. The level of education among Dalits extremely low. Harijan Most children drop out of school before completing secondary education, to earn money for his family.



15) Swaran Das shows a dhol (drum), in which he hits, worshiping the god Rama. Swaran left the school a few days ago, because he believes that the Study will help him get in life - because he still untouchable. Instead Swaran is determined to be a spiritual person, an ascetic.



16) Sitara Rani Das prichёsyvaet hair before the visit to the house of their relatives. Despite the desperate poverty she likes prihoroshitsya before going "live". Sitara also works as a cleaner at the time Chittagong City Corporation.



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