Untouchables

Shudras

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March 22nd 2006
This is my entry in the Narrative Creative Writing assignment due today I was born…. Claire McManus 438 I WAS BORN AN UNTOUCHABLE I was born a hapless shudras. I can not remember how old I was when I realized the there might be a different way of life, an alternate set of rules; my inexcusable ignorance restricted by a rigidly stagnant existence. I was born a feckless shudras within ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more