First of all there is no real untouchability in india. Dalits were always raped, touched when it suited oppressive castes in india. Whether it is the brahmin controlling water access to dalit women and enjoying molesting them in the novel "THe untouchable" by mulk raj anand, or is it those thakur boys who raped phoolan devi 50 times, or the innumerable times reddy or kamma or other landlords have had sex - its always there. what we have in caste system is just another form of slavery . For