PHOTO OF THE DAY July 23, 2005  

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Where India
When Circa 1920
Photographer Maynard Owen Williams

"The caption on the back of this picture from our archives is short and cold: 'India. Watering a man without breaking caste rules.' For an Untouchable, a member of the lowest Hindu social class, the rules are many, with prohibitions on everything from physical contact with higher castes to drinking from central village wells."

—From "From the Editor," June 2003, National Geographic magazine


National Geographic magazine: India's Untouchables
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