How To Use Harijan In A Sentence
- He broke all traditions of the society; during the early sixties India was pretty much like the U.S. in the way she treated her "Harijan" -- God's chosen people as Mahatma Gandhi termed the "untouchables". Mike Ghouse: A Tribute To My Pluralist Father
- Mahatma Gandhi coined the word Harijan, which translates roughly as "Children of God," to identify the former Untouchables with greater dignity. Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village
- No further follow up action has been taken by the Ministry, discouraging or dissuading the use of the word Harijan," it added. The Times of India
- In the context of traditional Hindu society, Harijan have often been associated with occupations regarded as ritually "impure," such as any involving leatherwork, butchering, or removal of rubbish, animal carcasses, and human waste. Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village
- The Harijan candidates for some seats in the legislature would be selected in private consultation between Hindus and untouchables.
- 36The term Harijan, meaning `people of God', was popularised by Archive 2006-06-01
- Big groups of harijans, or outcastes, from India were drumming and singing while African road-workers in blue overalls downed tools and African women downed bags to dance to the music from another continent.
