Untouchability
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Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social gr
B. R. Ambedkar with the leaders and activists of the All India Untouchable Women Conference held at Nagpur in 1942
Burakumin
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Burakumin are a historically marginalized social group in Japan. Their ancestors were outcastes of the pre-modern era who were associated with occupations considered impure or tainted by death, such a
Untouchability
…the Dalit communities in the Indian subcontinent who were considered "polluting". The term has also been used to refer to other groups, including the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea, and the Ragyabpa of Tibet, as well as the Romani people and Cagot in Europe, and the Al-Akhdam in Yemen. Traditionally…
Staged photo by Suzuki Shin'ichi I depicting burakumin leather workers, 1873
17th-century painting depicting a buraku outside the walls of Kyoto
Text of the 1871 Liberation Declaration (Kaihōrei)
Suiheisha members in 1924