Parias
or Pariahs. The lowest class of the Hindu population,
below the four castes. Literally drummers, from parai, a large
drum.
“The lodgers overhead may perhaps be able to take a more
comprehensive view of public questions; but they are political Helots,
they are the Pariahs of our constitutional Brahminism.” —The Times, March 20, 1867.
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