Editing Untouchability (section)

==Characteristics==
[[File:The races of man, figure 126 Group of Paniyan men and children of Malabar (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png|thumb|350px|People regarded as "untouchables" in [[Malabar (Northern Kerala)|Malabar]], [[Kerala]] (1906 [[Anno Domini|A.D.]])]]
According to [[Sarah Pinto]], an anthropologist, modern untouchability in India applies to people whose work relates to "meat, and bodily fluids".<ref>{{cite book |title=Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India |first=Sarah |last=Pinto |publisher=[[Berghahn Books]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-85745-448-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5V-_NssEMSsC&pg=PA47 |page=47}}</ref> Based on the punishments prescribed in The Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955 the following practices could be understood to have been associated with Untouchability in India:
*Prohibition from eating with other members
*Provision of separate cups in village tea stalls
*Separate seating arrangements and utensils in restaurants
*Segregation in seating and food arrangements at village functions and festivals
*Prohibition from entering places of public worship
*Prohibition from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of higher caste members
*Prohibition from entering other caste homes
*Prohibition from using common village paths
*Separate burial/cremation grounds
*Prohibition from accessing common/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.)
*Segregation (separate seating area) of children in schools
*[[Bonded labour]]
*Social boycotts by other castes for refusing to perform their "duties"<ref>https://www.indiacelebrating.comsocial-issuesuntouchability-in-india {{dead link|date=April 2020}}</ref>