pariah

A social outcast.

A Dalit.

A member of a low caste of Hindus in southern India, lower than the regular castes of the Brah-manical system, by whom they are shunned as unclean, yet superior to some other castes in the Tamil country, where they constitute a considerable part of the population. The Pariahs are commonly employed as laborers by the agricultural class, or as servants to Europeans.

[lowercase] A member of any similarly degraded class; one generally despised; an outcast from society; a vagabond.

One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindus as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.

An outcast; one despised by society.

a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities.

a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

An outcast.

A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.