Chandala (Sanskerta: चण्डाल) adalah kata bahasa Sanskerta untuk seseorang yang berurusan dengan pembuangan mayat, dan merupakan kasta rendah Hindu,[1] yang secara tradisional dianggap tidak boleh disentuh.[2][3]
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Referensi
- ↑ Viswanath, Rupa (2014). The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India. Columbia University Press. hlm. 268. ISBN 978-0-23116-306-4. Panchama means "of the fifth," and therefore outside the fourfold classical system of caste, or varna. Avarna, similarly means those outside the varna system. Chandala is a term referring to "unclean" castes and is used as a vlur in many parts of India.
- ↑ Chandrashekhar Bhat (1984). Ethnicity and Mobility. Concept publishing. hlm. 2–3.
- ↑ S. M. Michael (1999). Untouchable: Dalits in Modern India. Lynne Rienner Publishers. hlm. 3–4. ISBN 9781555876975.
Bacaan lebih lanjut
- Anna Dallapiccola, Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend, Thames & Hudson, 2004 ISBN0-500-51088-1
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