Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India, a person of mixed caste, whose touch, breath, or presence is a pollution; theoretically, one sprung from a Sudra father and a Brahman mother; an outcast. Wilson.

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Examples

  • The chandala chatimpu of Nagappagari Sunderaraju, Panchamavedam of Satish Chander, Noorella dalita vudhyamam of Adapa satyanarayana are few examples to cite.

    Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009

  • The chandala chatimpu of Nagappagari Sunderaraju, Panchamavedam of Satish Chander, Noorella dalita vudhyamam of Adapa satyanarayana are few examples to cite.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

  • / The history that is occurring today/Is the most chandala history26

    Archive 2007-08-01 kesav 2007

  • / The history that is occurring today/Is the most chandala history26

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2007

  • Now that the State purse is empty, that the social diversion of full employment has also gone, the chandala emerge to prey on those who are likely to be the easiest mark, such as the elderly.

    The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #11 1992

  • In now way related to the plundering warrior, the freebooting highwayman or pirate, this is the untermensch - the Underman - the chandala outcaste written of in terms of foreboding by Nietzsche and Lothrop Stoddard (The Revolt Against Civilization - The Menace of the Under-Man, London 1922).

    The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #11 1992

  • Understanding one another rather well, they are more merciless to their own offenders than is Brahman to chandala, for they will hardly let them live.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • So that in that respect the mangy jackals, the monkeys, and the chandala

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Time was when this was not true, as Congreve, Pope, Wycherley and even Thackeray show, but that time was before the Reform Bill of 1832, the great intellectual levelling, the emancipation of the _chandala_.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • So that in that respect the mangy jackals, the monkeys, and the chandala

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

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