Black and white lantern slide showing a poor Indian family standing outside their mud and thatch home. A man stands with his wife, who holds a very young baby. A daughter of around four years of age holds her younger sibling in her arms. The caption to the slide reads: "Outcast." This family could come from the "Dalit" or "Untouchable" caste, a group outside the four main castes of Hindu society, and believed to be ritually impure. Dalits were associated with "unclean" occupations, such as leatherwork, butchery, waste disposal and animal carcass disposal. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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