Meaning of halalcore | Babel Free

Definitions

A sweeper or scavenger; a person of very low caste.

British, India

Examples

“The Halalchors, (who I occasionally mentioned a little before) are another sort of Indians at Surat, the most contemptible, but extremely necessary to be there.”

“But the woman who does not burn herself in the pile with her husband is deprived of her rights. She becomes the halalcrore of the family, doomed to perform the vilest offices of an outcast from society.”

“Bentham notes that killing a Hallachore who touches a man of superior tribe isn't regarded as blameworthy.”

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