Spotlight: India - Lowly Gujjars Battle for Bottom of Caste System - - by Moving Down, They Get Better Schools, Jobs
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › June 06, 2007
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GURGAON, India - For a week, angry throngs from one of India's lower castes blocked roads with burning barricades, stoned police and clashed with rival castes to make a single, simple point: They want to be even lower.
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Spotlight: India - Lowly Gujjars Battle for Bottom of Caste System - - by Moving Down, They Get Better Schools, Jobs
Caste fight: With 25 people dead, the unrest spread to the fringes of New Delhi on Monday as thousands of Gujjars, a class of farmers and shepherds, pressed th...
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