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Encyclopedia > Pallars

Pallars is one of the historical Catalan counties, collindant with the county of Ribagorça and the county of Urgell. Its territory was between the Pyrenees and the Montsec mountains, that is, the current comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Pallars Jussà. The historical capital was Sort.


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Untouchability and Inter Caste Relations in Rural India: The Case of Southern Tamil Villages - A. Ramaiah (8306 words)
The Pallar caste is considered to be the highest caste among the lower or the Scheduled Castes and lower caste among the higher castes or the caste Hindus in Tamil Nadu.
The Pallars were prohibited from fetching water from this well on the pretext that their vessels and buckets would pollute the water by their touch.
Though the Pallars interacted with and had access to the residential areas of the Vellalars who are next to the Brahmins in the caste hierarchy, the former were denied entry into the houses of the latter.
The Pattern of Abuse - Broken People: Caste Violence Against IndiaÂ’s “Untouchables” (Human Rights Watch Report, 1999) (15241 words)
Pallars became able to own and farm their own lands or look elsewhere for employment.
Following the attack, 150 Pallar houses were set on fire; a Pallar resident of the village was thrown into the fire and burned alive.
Among the thirty Pallar families who lived there at the time, many owned agricultural lands and brick houses, a clear indication of their relative prosperity and reportedly a motivation for the attack.
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