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Noun

Bhangi ‎(plural Bhangis)

1. (India) A member of the Bhangi caste, traditionally restricted to cleaning latrines and handling dead bodies

See also

• Bhangi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

bhangi ‎(plural bhangis)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bhangi
   • 1946 June 23, Mohandas Gandhi, in Harijan, reprinted in Economic Thought, published 1962:

     At a stroke the bhangis will raise scavenging to a fine art and give it the status it should have had long ago.

   • 1960, Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Mahatma: life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Volume 7, page 165:

     The sight of a bhangi carrying the night-soil basket on his head made him sick.