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In some settings, people may eat meat they know to be contaminated, as was the situation in a poor village of Harijans ("untouchables") in India (8). Chapter 5 concerns Gandhi's attempt to persuade India that sweeping was the highest profession, and his failure to see that the Harijans ("children of God"), as he called untouchables, needed emancipation, not just a better image. The oppression of the Harijans in India is something widely known to most of us. |
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, person of Hari, child of God (coined as a euphemism for Untouchable by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1931) : Hari