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chamar|tʃəˈmɑː(r)|
Also chumar.
[Hindi.]
A member of an exterior Hindu caste whose occupation is leather-working; a worker in leather, a tanner, shoemaker. Also, in northern and central India, an agricultural labourer.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade. 1899C. W. Doyle Taming of Jungle ii. 18 A wee little manikin of the chamar (tanner) caste. 1901Kipling Kim iii. 81 All castes and kinds of men move here. Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers. 1924Blackw. Mag. Nov. 693/1 This little swine of a chúmar. 1934M. L. Darling Wisdom & Waste in Punjab Village 167 Chamárs and Khatiks, dealers in hides and skins, respectively. 1951J. H. Hutton Caste in India (ed. 2) 23 The Chamar of Chattisgarh, although belonging to that exterior caste of leather-workers whose touch is polluting to caste Hindus, are here cultivators tilling the land. |