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Definition of Pariahs
1. pariah [n] - See also: pariah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pariahs
Literary usage of Pariahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"The first step necessary in their elevation the pariahs regard to be a change of
their racial name ; and there is, indeed, considerable force in the ..."
2. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"The Pa- But beneath these, and beneath even the Burren Sunken, there is a race
of most degraded and universally insulted outcasts, called pariahs, ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"A Hindoo who loses caste is ranked with the pariahs, a penalty accounted worse
than death. The pariahs are supposed to be descendants of aboriginal tribes ..."
4. Native Life in Travancore by Samuel Mateer (1883)
"pariahs. THESE are more numerous in the South, where they are also found less
reduced in social status, and their usages resemble those of the Tamil pariahs ..."
5. Native Life in Travancore by Samuel Mateer (1883)
"pariahs. THESE are more numerous in the South, where they are also found less
reduced in social status, and their usages resemble those of the Tamil pariahs ..."
6. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"... pariahs, or Sudras, and become brothers." He made religion to consist of love
and kindness to all living beings. All tests of rank were merged by him ..."
7. Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India by Jean Antoine Dubois (1817)
"OF THE pariahs AND OTHER INFERIOR CASTS OF HINDUS. ... In all districts of the
peninsula, the pariahs are entirely subjected to the other casts, ..."
8. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"pariahs, or Sudras, and become brothers." He made religion to consist of love
and kindness to all living beings. All tests of rank were merged by him into ..."
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