Definition of Harijan

1. Noun. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.

Exact synonyms: Untouchable
Generic synonyms: Castaway, Ishmael, Outcast, Pariah
Derivative terms: Untouchable

Definition of Harijan

1. an outcaste in India [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harijan

Hardon
Hardy
Hardy-Rand-Ritter test
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Hardy-Weinberg law
Hardyan
Hardyesque
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishnas
Haredi
Harezm
Hargeisa
Hargreaves
Hari
Harijan
Haripur
Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
Harkat ul-Ansar
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
Harki
Harkis
Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlean Carpenter
Harlee
Harlem
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem River
Harlem sunset

Literary usage of Harijan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Identifying the Food Insecure: The Application of Mixed-Method Approaches in by Kimberly Chung (1997)
"In the harijan busti (neighborhood), one woman showed the investigator a large pot ... She estimated that people in the harijan busti ate the wild greens at ..."

2. Lok Sabha Debates. by India Parliament. Lok Sabha, India, Parliament, Lok Sabha (1839)
"There is no district ion between Hindu harijan and Christian harijan. ... But when you go to a harijan ward, all are treated as harijans whether they are ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Today men and women of all castes and creeds work together in a nationwide organization called harijan Sevak Sangh (Society of the Servers of the People of ..."

4. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"harijan, 3, 24, and 31 May 1942. 74. FRUS, 1942, vol. I, pp. 677-78, letter from Gandhi to President Roosevelt, 1 July 1942. 75. Ibid., pp. ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"1 (1949). GUMMI und Asbest. Forststrasse 131, Stuttgart W, Germany. Monthly. Jahrg. 3 (1950). harijan. Kalupur, Ahmedabad, India. Weekly. Vol. 13 (1949). ..."

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