Word: fatehpur
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Students will visit the cities of New Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur-Sikri, Jaipur and Ajmer on the two week journey. The trip is scheduled to begin after Christmas and will extend into reading period...
...deplorable story of the young couple would have been just another in a long list of brutalities committed against India's untouchables, the lowest of the low in the country's rigid caste structure. But the event took place in the Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the constituency of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, and the landlord is a Thakur, a member of the same upper caste as the nation's leader. Eager to embarrass the Prime Minister, the opposition Congress (I) Party has turned the plight of Kuchchi Devi into the country's leading cause celebre...
...country's 128 million other untouchables, or Harijans. Kuchchi's case only underscores how, despite special laws aimed at protecting them, the Harijans face despicably high levels of oppression. Last week a Harijan woman was reportedly burned to death after being gang raped by three men, again in Fatehpur. In 1989 more than 14,000 anti-Harijan atrocities, including 759 rapes and 479 murders, were registered. Countless others went unrecorded because victims fear the police, who are themselves frequently the perpetrators. Often cruelties against Harijans are considered just part of local custom. In parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar...