在印度，最能和美国黑人的地位相类比的是贱民-即以前所谓的“最底层不可接触的贱民 ” ， 他们是数千年来遭受屈辱的歧视和压迫的被剥夺种姓的阶层。
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits – formerly called “Untouchables,” the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.