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avarna

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avarna (plural avarnas)

  1. (India) Someone outside the caste system, especially a Dalit or member of a tribal group.
    • 2005, P Radhakrishnan, Perfidies of Power, page 34:
      Many enlightened savarnas opened their private temples to the avarnas in the years that followed 1925.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 16:
      In many parts of the country, Avarnas continue to be thought of as ‘downtrodden’, ‘unworthy’, ‘polluted’—‘untouchables’.