They lose their virtues at the contact and merge on the untouchablemasses of the lowest Hindu castes, with the same vices and the same imitative rules and customs.
These run from the very low untouchable castes who are the usual domestics of the European officer to the skilled artisan and the cultivator.
From the two races in mixed and varying proportion are sprung the artisans and respectable cultivators of India, probably even the untouchable and degraded castes that cluster in dirty hovels on the outskirts of every village.
Among the gipsy and criminal tribes indeed clothes are worn until they drop off from age; and the untouchable castes who perform the lowest menial services and cluster in sordid hovels outside the village also leave much to be desired.
What was this place, truly, but the untouchable Land of the Dead, which the sun had somehow invaded.
Minute after minute, rhapsody on rhapsody, she wooed the near, untouchable delights that, like the moonbeams, seem but empty nothing when the drudges seize them for their palaces of mud.
For it is one of the anomalies of this peculiar conception that the most untouchable Hindu ceases to be quite as untouchable when he becomes a Christian or a Mahomedan.
They very humbly bowed to the Bhatta from a distance, and as he ran to meet them they receded further crying, "Touch not untouchable sinners like us!
Haridas cried, "Touch me not, Master, I am a low untouchable wretch.
That you have graciously touched this untouchable Shudra is the proof of your mercy and that of Sarvabhauma.
