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Nonfiction Usage

Journalism Usage

Cameroon - News: October 13, 2004 — Headline: Students in Cameroon Threaten Another Hunger Strike for Better Conditions. Excerpt: He says a hunger strike is better than a violent protest, because at least he is not being arrested and beaten up by police. He says he is protesting because students have become what he calls "untouchables."

Geneva - News: August 8, 2002 — Headline: UN Looks at Discrimination Against 'Untouchables,' South Asia's Lowest Caste. Excerpt: There are more than 250 million so-called untouchables, or Dalit, in South Asia. The largest number is found in India. But, millions of low-caste people also live in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Other people are in similar caste situations in Senegal and Japan.

India - News: August 8, 2001 — Headline: Indian Police Arrest Family For Killing Lovers From Different Castes. Excerpt: The 3,000 caste system is an integral aspect of Hindu theology, in which every person is born into a particular caste. Since India's independence, more than 50 years ago, there has been a widespread legal movement to alleviate the inequalities of the caste-system. Laws banning discrimination against lower-caste individuals and groups have been enacted and quotas have been established for lower-caste Indians in schools and government jobs. India's untouchables, now known as Dalits, have won considerable political power. The country's president, K.R. Narayanan, is a member of the Dalit community.

India - News: August 31, 2001 — Headline: Caste System is Also an Issue in Durban. Author: Challiss McDonough. Excerpt: They are handing out headbands and buttons demanding equal rights for those who belong to the lowest caste, the so-called "untouchables," the Dalits.

India - News: April 22, 2004 — Headline: Many Indians Find Promised Prosperity Elusive. Excerpt: Most villagers in Nath Purwa are "Dalits," or untouchables, the lowest level in the Hindu faith's caste system. Thousands of years old, the caste system is a social hierarchy for India's Hindu majority that governs whom an individual may marry and what work he or she may do.

India - News: April 23, 2006 — Headline: Indian Government Wants Private-Sector Job Quotas for Members of Low Castes. Author: Anjana Pasricha. Excerpt: For centuries, "Dalits" or untouchables were at the bottom of India's caste system, which divides society into groups based on occupation. Many Dalits, members of other lower castes and India's ethnic tribal groups remain mired in poverty.

India - News: February 26, 2007 — Headline: India Criticized for Discrimination Against Untouchables. Author: Lisa Schlein. Excerpt: Smita Narula is a professor of Law at New York University and co-author of a report called Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination against India's "Untouchables." She says the Dalits are the most vulnerable and exploited people in India.

Japan - News: August 29, 2001 — Headline: Plight of Tokyo's Unemployed Day Laborers. Excerpt: San'ya is Tokyo's forgotten suburb, at least in the minds of young Japanese. But for older Japanese, the name resonates with scandal, violence and fear. San'ya was once a public execution ground located near a neighborhood of the Baraku, Japan's untouchables.

Palestine - News: December 19, 2003 — Headline: Middle East Conflict Continues to Smolder. Excerpt: Yasser Abed Rabbo: "What we did in this document, we found the solution for all the issues that many people from both sides, leaders, politicians, were saying, 'No, don't touch these issues. These are the untouchables.'"

South Africa - News: September 5, 2001 — Headline: 'Voices of Victims' at Durban Racism Conference. Author: Challiss McDonough. Excerpt: The victims come from all over the world, indigenous people in Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, China; Asians in Britain; Dalits, or so-called "untouchables" in India; Kurds in Turkey; Arabs in Israel; people of African descent in Brazil and the United States.

• Preface iv
• Nonfiction Usage 1
• Journalism Usage 1
• Governmental Usage 2
• Bibliographic Usage 2
• Encyclopedic Usage 8
• Lexicographic Usage 10
• Index 17