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India's 'untouchable' women face discrimination even in schemes meant to help them

  • Written by Kanika Meshram, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Melbourne
India's 'untouchable' women face discrimination even in schemes meant to help themRafiq Maqbool/AP

Seema and her husband did quite well when they first opened a samosa stall in the local market of a town in Bihar state, northeastern India.

But then other vendors found out who Seema was.

They yelled at her customers for buying her samosas. They threatened her husband for “polluting” the market by selling food prepared...

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