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Word: humpbacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villages for the southwest wind to bring the rains of June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming the sacred humpback cattle, not marrying outside their caste, not permitting the shadow of a European or an outcaste to fall upon their persons or their food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plans and the People | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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