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"text": "Many enlightened savarnas opened their private temples to the avarnas in the years that followed 1925.",
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"ref": "2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 16",
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"Someone outside the caste system, especially a Dalit or member of a tribal group."
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