Rodi or Rodiya (lit., filth) are an untouchable Buddhist social group or caste amongst the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka.[1] Their status was very similar to all the Untouchable castes of India with segregated communities, ritualised begging, economically weakest section of the society.[2][page needed]
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Rodi or Rodiya (lit., filth) are an untouchable Buddhist social group or caste amongst the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. Their status was very similar...
Rodiya is a dialect of the Sinhalese language spoken by members of the Rodiya community of Sri Lanka. Speakers are considered to be low-caste among the...
many local or Village gods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India and by the Rodiya and Vedda peoples of Sri Lanka. Vaḷḷi is also known as Pongi at Vallimalai...
monitor meat is considered edible (especially by indigenous Veddah and Rodiya people) while water monitor meat is not. Killing a land monitor is usually...
a king on the horse in the background- Deccani Painting , 19th century Rodiya woman carrying water, Ceylon 1910 Lady After A Bath, Mughal Art, 18th century...
reached out to the poorest sections of society in Sri Lanka - including the Rodiya Community. He housed the Rodi on church property in Borella, Colombo....
'welfare for all through our shared labour'. In 1958, the neglected village of Rodiya, inhabited by social outcasts and beggars, received help in the form of...
hunter-gatherers. Sri Lanka has had other hunter-gathering peoples such as the Rodiya and Kinnaraya. The earliest account of Vedda was written by Ryklof Van Goens...
"outcastes", Rodiya, beginning in the area of Kadugannava, west of Kandy. Some of the rodiya lived and studied on the Island Hermitage. The son of the Rodiya chieftain...
vestiges of tribal origins like the other formerly untouchable caste of Rodiyas. Although they have become part and parcel of the caste structure albeit...
Sinhala abugida script, which is derived from the ancient Brahmi script. The Rodiya language, a dialect of Sinhala, is spoken by the low-caste community of...
Sinhala, the main language of Sri Lanka, and of the dialects of the Veddhas, Rodiyas, and Vanniyas. He was the founder and a major contributor of the scholarly...
for the poor on the island. He had helped the poorest of the poor - the Rodiya Community in Sri Lanka. Clarence Wijewardena had visited Vernon Corea's...
in India Madiga Mahar Mala (caste) Nalavar Paraiyar Pulayar Kanshi Ram Rodiya Sakkiliar Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities)...
(barber), aruwa (potter), goviya (farmer), bamuna (Brahmin) and Villiya (Rodiya). Besides the Y parts already mentioned, other commonly used land usage...
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