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| By Suvajit Dutta |
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Friday, February 05, 2010 (15:14:13) |
| Tags : India, superstition |
Woman banished from community for being touched by an outsider
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| Amravati:: India might have progressed in industrialization and technological sectors, but as far as societal improvement is concerned, it is still lagging behind. Superstitions still exist in the Indian society that is indeed holding back its advancement. An incident of Mangrul Chavala village has given a clear proof of the existence of superstitions in India.
The village is situated at an approximate distance of 50km from Amravati, where a woman named Parsanta Pawar belonging to the Pardhi community was banished by the community itself. This punishment was given to her as a person from a different community touched her.
Parsanta resides in Pardhi Beda in the village of Mangrul Chavala. The region is experiencing faces severe shortage of water since months. To overcome this quandary, several young people of the community dug a well close to a school in the village so as to compensate the requirement of water of all including the Pardhis.
On January 28, an education officer came for school inspection and directed that Pardhi women should not take water from the well. This gave rise to a huge quarrel between the officer and the Pardhi women including Parsanta, who afterwards lodged a compliant against the officer.
But Parsanta was banished by her community for becoming an untouchable as she was touched by the officer belonging to another community. Parsanta, a woman of 38 years of age has 4 children. Her husband too abandoned her and supported the judgment given by the community. |
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