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Indian Girl Thrown Fire ' Low Class' - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 1st May, 2008 - 7:17pm
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Indian Girl Thrown On Fire For Being 'low Class'
Even though the caste system in India has been illegal for over six decades, Indians does not seem to be concerned about the legality. People of lower castes are kept from upper-caste drinking wells, barred from temples and kept out of village schools. My heart goes to this little girl.
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| LUCKNOW, India - Police in northern India arrested a man who allegedly threw a girl into a pile of glowing embers after he caught her trespassing, an attack authorities said Wednesday may have been motivated by caste. The 6-year-old girl is recuperating at a state-run hospital in Mathura, the north Indian city where the alleged attack occurred, said Dr. Ramesh Kumar. She is considered a dalit _ a member of the lowest caste in India, where a system of rigid social hierarchy still lingers. The alleged attacker, Madan Singh, 22, comes from a higher caste. Singh discovered the girl relieving herself Tuesday in a field he owned and demanded she immediately stop what she was doing and leave his property. "When she did not respond, he simply lifted her and threw her in a heap of embers," local police official Govind Agarwal told The Associated Press. "The cry of the girl drew the attention of the villagers. They came rushing and pulled the girl out of fire." Singh was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted murder, said police official R.K. Chaturvedi. Police are investigating whether Singh attacked her because of her caste, he said... |
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I was just asking a question on another part of the site about skin color and now I'm reading this! Is India really so backward, they sound tribal, but I did not get that impression from some of the students I know from India?
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