avarna

plural avarnas

1. IndiaSomeone outside the caste system, especially a Dalit or member of a tribal group.

   Many enlightened savarnas opened their private temples to the avarnas in the years that followed 1925.

   2005, P Radhakrishnan, Perfidies of Power, page 34

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   In many parts of the country, Avarnas continue to be thought of as ‘downtrodden’, ‘unworthy’, ‘polluted’—‘untouchables’.

   2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 16