THE UNTOUCHABLES : WHY DO THE..... VILLAGE ? 277
Nomadic life to the life of a settled village community. There must have been in Primitive Hindu society, Settled tribes and Broken Men. The Settled tribes founded the village and formed the village community and the Broken Men lived in separate quarters outside the village for the reason that they belonged to a different tribe and, therefore, to different blood. To put it definitely, the Untouchables were originally only Broken Men. It is because they were Broken Men that they lived outside the village.
This explains why it is natural to suppose that the Untouchables from the very beginning lived outside and that Untouchability has nothing to do with their living outside the village.
The theory is so novel that critics may not feel satisfied without further questioning. They will ask:
(1) Is there any factual evidence to suggest that the Untouchables are Broken Men?
(2) Is there evidence that the process of settlement suggested above has actually taken place in any country?
(3) If Broken Men living outside the village is a universal feature of all societies, how is it that the separate quarters of the Broken Men have disappeared outside India but not in India?
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