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	Bhangi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bhangi are the segment of Indian society that were traditionally relegated to only the dirtiest and most unpleasant jobs.
		Even within the Dalits, the group once known as "Untouchables", Bhangis were considered to have the lowest status.
		Although Bhangis are sometimes referred to as "sweepers", the word does not really convey the extraordinary conditions under which they generally work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhangi (192 words)

	Humanscape - March 1999
		The bhangi is asked to go from street to street and announce a meeting or warn cattle-breeders who are trampling crops etc. In return he is paid a rupee or two.
		Hadaksha (the goddess of rabies) is worshipped by bhangis.
		The ghost of a bhangi male is known as Zampdo and the female as Zampdi.
	www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/1999/April/hs4993t.htm (4577 words)

	Bhangian di Misal
		The Bhangi sardars left the town hastily and Ranjit Singh became master of the capital of the Punjab, laying the foundation of Sikh monarchy.
		By 1810 all Bhangi territories Lahore, Amritsar, Sialkot, Chiniot, Jhang, Bhera, Rawalpindi, Hasan Abdal, Gujrat—had merged with the kingdom of Ranjit Singh.
		The descendants of Bhangi sardars are today concentrated mainly in the Amritsar district of the Punjab.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/m-bhangi.html (973 words)

	Dalit (outcaste) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Included are leather-workers (called chamar), scavengers (called bhangi or chura), street handicrafters, poor farmers and laborers.
		Where as the terms Chura and Bhangi are profession based terms for scavengers, neech as general term for low born;others are actual names of the caste.
		Instead, like the rest of the Hindu society, they are divided into various subcastes known as or 'jatis', the lowest ranking of which is generally considered to be the Bhangis or scavengers, and often used in hindi vernacular as derogatory term.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scheduled_castes (2382 words)

	Untold Story of a Bhangi Vice-Chancellor
		Main Bhangi Hun of Bhagawan Das, An Untouchable in the IAS by Balwant Singh, and Ek Jan Daliter Atmakatha of Dr Manoranjan Sarkar are in the same vein.
		Hatred for a Bhangi is a plague afflicting Muslims in common with the Hindus.
		The Bhangi students launched a campaign against the Sanskrit teacher by enlisting the support of a reputed Bhangi social worker, Narsingh Dev Gujarati, through democratic means: a complaint of harassment, insult and humiliation towards the untouchable student against the orthodox teacher was lodged with the Inspector of Schools, who set off a prompt enquiry.
	www.chetna.net /reports/untold_story_of_a_bhangi.htm (2903 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		With ‘inauspicious’ jobs, a Bhangi woman or man is kept away from normal interaction with other members of society for fear of being ‘polluted’.
		One of the most moving images in the documentary is that of Bhangi schoolchildren being asked to sit apart in the classroom, and being abused and reviled.
		The case of Gujarati Bhangis is a curious one.
	www.himalmag.com /may2001/filmreview.html (939 words)

	Bhangi Misl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		he word Bhangi is derived from bhang or hemp, a plant of wild growth found in the jungles of the Punjab, and in abundance along river banks.
		Although the majority of the soldiers of Bhangi misls were Jats, there were substantially number of converted sikhs from lower hindu castes.
		The territories of Bhangi Misl are Cis-Satluj region Buriya and Jagadhri on the Jamuna (204 villages) and on the Satluk bajidpur, Bhedian, Firozepur, Khai, Muhalim, Naggar, Sahjara, Sataragarh, Singhpura and Wan.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/bhangi.html (371 words)

	Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji
		It was Sahib Singh Bhangi (they were called 'Bhangi' as Bhai Bhim Singh, one of the first Sardars of this missal, used to take 'Bhang' a lot before he was initiated in the Khalsa brotherhood.
		Sahib Singh shut himself at the fort of Sodhran and the siege of the fort was laid.
		When the other Bhangi Sardars came to know about the illness of Mahan Singh and the army of Sukerchakias was commanded by a child of ten years they came to the rescue of Sahib Singh Bhangi at Sodhran.
	www.sikhpoint.com /religion/sikhcommunity/maharajaranjitsingh.htm (1211 words)

	The Tribune...Saturday Plus Head
		He took the second gun with him but it was washed away in the Chenab when he was trying to cross the river.
		Thereafter, Lehna Singh and Gujjar Singh Bhangi got hold of it and they gave it to Charat Singh Shukerchakia as his share in the spoils.
		The Bhangi Sardars thought that Charat Singh would not be able to carry this gun with him and it would remain with them.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct31/saturday/head4.htm (561 words)

	Discrimination and Exploitative Forms of Labor - Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables” (Human ...
		Bhangis are the section of Dalits that do this work.
		Members of the Bhangi community in Gujarat are paid by state municipalities to clean the gutters, streets, and community dry latrines.
		The Bhangis lived in a residential area called Bhangivas separate from the Dharbars, Rajputs, and Vanniyas who constitute the caste Hindus in the area.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/india/India994-09.htm (4522 words)

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		Even within the group that were once known as the Untouchables, Bhangis were considered to have the lowest status.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bhangi.html (202 words)

	Maharaja Ranjit Singh
		It was Sahib Singh bhangi (they were called bhangis as they use to drink 'Bhang' all the time) of Gujarat (a town in Punjab, now in Pakistan) refused to pay tribute to Mahan Singh and his estate was attacked by him.
		When the other Bhangi sardars came to know about the illness of Mahan singh and the army of Sukerchikia's was commanded by a child of ten years they came to rescue the Sahib singh bhangi at Sodhran.
		The Bhangi sardars, Lehna Singh, and Sobha singh were driven out of Lahore in 1767 by the Abdali but soon reoccupied it.
	www.singhsabha.com /maharaja_ranjit_singh.htm (6032 words)

	My ancesterol village is Rurki Hiran, its about 4 kms from Chamkour Sahib(where 2 older Sahibzadas were matyred in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the founders of this misl was Hari Singh Bhangi, who was a Dhillon from near Badni in Faridkot.
		As the Bhangi misl was powerful and famous, so some Bhangoo Jatt-Sikhs might have wanted to get associated with it.
		Or is it possible that some of the Bhangi chiefs were in fact “Bhangoo”.
	www.bhangoo.com /ws/b/famtrees/amritsubmit.html (594 words)

	Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study
		Elaborating on the point, he said Matadin Bhangi was the one who had taunted Mangal Pandey about having bitten cartridges greased with pig/ cow fat, which made a rebel out of the once loyal soldier.
		"The name of Matadin Bhangi can be traced in some documents of that era and it also finds ample space in the Amir Khan starrer film as well as the recent works based on Pandey," Tiwari said.
		However, surprisingly, most people have failed to understand the significance of what appears mainly as a "nasty taunt" from a lowly born.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/nov/10revolt.htm (679 words)

	[ dalitawaz.com ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bhangi, Mehtar, Olgana, Rukhi, Malkana, Halalkhor, Lalbegi, Balmiki, Korar, Zadmalli 6.
		Bhangi, Mehtar, Olgana, Rukhi, Malkana, Halalkhor, Lalbegi, Balmiki, Korar, Zadmalli 22.
		Bhangi, Mehtar, Olgana, Rukhi, Malkana, Halalkhor, Lalbegi, Balmiki, Korar, Zadmalli 13.
	www.dalitawaz.com /sclist.asp (1151 words)

	Gateway to Sikhism : Sikh Warriors : Binod Singh
		Gujjar Singh Bhangi was one of the triumvirate who ruled over Lahore for thirty years before its occupation by Ranjit Singh, was son of a cultivator of modest means, Nattha Singh.
		Strong and well built, Gujjar Singh received the vows of the Khalsa at the hands of his maternal grandfather Gurbakhsh Singh Roranvala, who presented him with a horse and recruited him a member of his band.
		Soon the band was united to the force of Hari Singh, head of the Bhangi Misl of chiefship.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/gujjar.htm (409 words)

	Why?
		Why not invest our resources in groups like the Bhangi Dalit people of northern India where, during the past year, close to 10,000 a month accepted Jesus as their Savior and joined the rapidly growing Rural Presbyterian Church-India.
		The Bhangi church is growing by thousands per month, while the Suri church is hardly growing at all.
		They tell them of how Jesus suffered humiliation, loneliness, insults, injustice and cruelty and, because of their own humiliation and suffering at the hands of the general society, the Bhangi (excreta-handling Dalits) understand Jesus, "deep in their souls," as Philip says, and readily accept Him to be their true and only Savior.
	www.zianet.com /fpc/bow0301.htm (554 words)

	Book Review of Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anad - Associated Content
		Written by Mulk Raj Anand in 1935 the fictional story is set in the outcastes’ colony outside of an unnamed town during the British occupation.
		Bhangi’s are the lowest of the low caste and they are given the job of cleaning the latrines and sweeping the streets.
		The dirty nature of the Bhangi’s work furthers the view of them as impure.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/13147/book_review_of_untouchable_by_mulk.html (528 words)

	OEDILF - Word Lookup
		The following limerick is in a "Tentative" state, which means the information contained within has not yet been verified.
		(BUHNG-gee) A bhangi ("user of bhang," or marijuana) is a member of a scavenging untouchable caste in India.
		Although caste discrimination is forbidden in India's constitution, it continues to affect the lives of the 160 million untouchables.
	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=bhangi (178 words)

	Pakistan Christian Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bhangi Misl stretched from Multan to Nowshera and included Lahore, Amritsar etc. Also all of Southern Punjab beyond Multan paid tribute to the Bhangis.
		You might also not know that the Zamzama gun/Bhangi Toop is called this not because of any association with the British, as most erroneously believe, but because it was captured by the Bhangi chief Jhanda Singh in 1772 -73 from the Chattha rulers of Rasulnagar, a small principality that briefly existed back then.
		Hence, though an absolute majority of Christians have no link with the sweeper class now popularly and mistakenly called "Bhangi" in Pakistan, Christians are all associated with low caste bhangi`s.
	www.pakistanchristianpost.com /articledetails.php?artid=264 (1099 words)

	Bhangi rasta Bhangi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Bhangi/Bhangi.html (271 words)

	[No title]
		Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Prime Minister has used the word "Bhangi" during his speech delivered from the rampart of Red Ford on 15th August.
		I had suggested that the name of the scheme should be "Safai Karamchari Mukti Pariyojana" in place of "Bhangi Mukti Pariyojana".
		He referred to a scheme of the Government of India that is in force for the last 10 years and that was also in force during the regime of Mr.
	parliamentofindia.nic.in /ls/lsdeb/ls10/ses4/0219089201.htm (2317 words)

	Humanscape - March 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This was a settlement of Bhangis, the outcastes among the outcastes.
		For the first time in my life I heard a man call himself a Bhangi (scavenger) with unselfconscious pride.
		Only in Svadhyaya did I see a Bhangi calling himself a Bhangi without the least trace of an inferiority complex.
	www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/1999/March/hs3998t.htm (4664 words)

	Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:The Sikh Misls
		During his eighth invasion of India Ahmad Shah Abdali was forced to retreat from the battle at Amritsar.
		Sahib Singh Bhangi and his men took out the several guns out of the river.
		Once Charat Singh Sukarchakia and Gujar Singh Bhangi of Bhangi misl secured a crucial victory over Sarbuland Khan, the Afghan faujdar of Rohtas.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/misls.htm (1641 words)

	tribuneindia...Chandigarh Features
		He stated that this was the only effective measure to check the growing insurgency which was taking its toll on the armed forces.
		Dr Bhangi, in various letters to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, had made inquiries on the kind of help the Pakhtoons expected from India after coming across a statement made by Abdul Gaffar Khan saying, “If Gandhiji were alive today, he would have remembered us and come to our aid.
		Dr Bhangi suggested that time was now ripe for any kind of help required by the Pakhtoons to give a crushing blow to the “Pakistani wolves’’ and ensuring the creation of Pakhtoonistan comprising the North West Frontier Province and the free belt near the Durand Line to “get rid of the thorn in the flesh—Pakistan’’.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jun29/cth3.htm (3417 words)

	Bhangi: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bhangi are the segment of India A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
		Even within the Dalits[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject], the group once known as the Untouchable Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
		Iyengar Iyengar (or aiyangar) is the name of a small in number but socially significant and illustrious community of brahmins of south india whose members profess the visishtadvaita philosophy codified by...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /b/bhangi (396 words)

	MethodX::Joe::::VERGE: the point at which something happens
		According to wikipedia.org, the Bhangi are the segment of Indian society that were traditionally relegated to only the dirtiest and most unpleasant jobs.
		I tell you this story in order to hearten you, and in order to make you understand, if my poor speech can make you understand, that what you see of the splendour and everything that the cities of India have to show you, is not real India.
		It’s to be found in serving the people with AIDS, the impoverished, and the humble Bhangis.
	methodxcommunity-joe.blogspot.com (5623 words)

	Campbell/cannabis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shiva explains to his wife, Parvati, how, in sowing hemp seed, you should keep repeating the spell 'Bhangi,' 'Bhangi,' apparently that the sound of that guardian name may scare the evil tare-sowing influences.
		Again, when the seedlings are planted the same holy name must be repeated, and also at the watering which, for the space of a year, the young plants must daily receive.
		Next day, with one hundred repetitions of the holy name Bhangi, the leaves and flowers should be washed in a river and dried in an open shed.
	www.samorini.net /doc/alt_aut/ad/campbell2.htm (2577 words)

	Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
		I want to connect that story with what I want to say to you, that if you really want to see India at its best you have to find it in a Bhangi cottage, in a humble Bhangi home, or such villages, so the English historians teach us, are 700,000.
		A few cities here and there, they don't hold several crores of people, but the 700,000 villages do hold nearly forty crores of people.
		Voglio legare questa storia con quello che voglio dirvi, che se volete realmente vedere l’India al suo meglio dovete trovarla in un’abitazione Bhangi, in un’umile casa Bhangi, o in villaggi di questo genere che, come ci insegnano gli storici inglesi, sono 700 mila.
	www.covoprieca.com /igrandi/gandhi/gandhi.htm (3176 words)

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