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Nepali dalits in Australia couldn't find a priest in her own hometown to do last rites of their parent - "We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritu
by iamshs 6y ago
Nepali dalits in Australia couldn't find a priest in her own hometown to do last rites of their parent -
"We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritual, without coming into our house but they refused," he says. "All they offered was a very short naming ceremony."
"Eventually we found a priest from Adelaide who directed me over the phone to perform the ritual. I felt it wasn't my father-in-law who died, it was me who was dying."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-11/caste-system-of-india-and-south-asia-in-australia-dalit-rights/13135622 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-11/caste-system-of-india...