INDIAN TRAGEDY
BARRIERS OF CASTE HINDU WOMAN ALLOWED TO DROWN. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, May 9. The barriers of nntouchability came in the way of saying life when a young Hindu woman of high caste fell into a well in a village near Nagpur. Two low caste youths wanted to jump into the well to save her, but other women prevented them because the water would be polluted by their touch. The girl was drowned.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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