halalcore

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1. BritishIndiaA sweeper or scavenger; a person of very low caste.

   Bentham notes that killing a Hallachore who touches a man of superior tribe isn't regarded as blameworthy.

   1998, Mark Tunick, Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgment, →ISBN, page 72

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   The Halalchors, (who I occasionally mentioned a little before) are another sort of Indians at Surat, the most contemptible, but extremely necessary to be there.

   p. 1689, J. Ovington, edited by J. P. Guha, India in the Seventeenth Century, published 1984, page 170

   But the woman who does not burn herself in the pile with her husband is deprived of her rights. She becomes the halalcrore of the family, doomed to perform the vilest offices of an outcast from society.

   1822, [Robert Grenville Wallace], Fifteen Years in India; or, Sketches of a Soldier's Life, London, page 227