Bitlaha
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Bitlaha
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Bitlaha is a South Asian concept used as a social punishment for violating the norms of exogamy and endogamy. The concept has been used by the Santals of India and the Satars of Nepal, who call themselves hod, meaning “human beings”. The hod in Nepal translate bitlaha as an outcast, disorder, polluted or unclean person. “It is a temporary state that affects both the village and it’s [sic] members…Bitlaha is contagious, affecting a bitlahas parents, guardians and whole village”. Once a person is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitlaha
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2023-02-06T23:06:16Z
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