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December 19, 1964

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a reporter at large

II-THE EX-UNTOUCHABLES.

Harold R. Isaacs

REPORTER AT LARGE about India's ex-Untouchables. The Untouchables, since pre-history, were kept apart below the bottom of Hindu society by religiously …