Dallit women paraded naked.

Hmm.

A group of Dalit women belonging to the barber community have allegedly been paraded naked by upper-caste people in a coastal village on Monday last.
The women’s fault: their husbands refused to wash the feet of bridegroom and members of barati during an upper-caste marriage a couple of months ago.
During marriage ceremonies in Orissa, the bride’s family hires barbers to wash the feet of the bridegroom and the members of the barati on their arrival at the bride’s place.


The men have begun protesting the ceremony and as a result the upper crust responded by harassing the women. I think washing feet is a realy offensive thing for men to have to do to other men, which is why they are protesting. There is also a caste/class implication here, but it is interesting how to get back at the men, they attack the women, aka “their women”. Weird.

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