Mar 25, 2015

Various Photographs of Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodi or Rodiya are one of the widely reported untouchable social group or caste amongst the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. Their status was very similar to all the Untouchable castes of India with segregated communities, ritualized begging, eating off the refuse of upper castes and refusal for the women and men to cover their upper bodies.
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 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

three Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)