Rodiya

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.

See also

• Exotic Tribes of Ancient India
• Rodiya language

References

• Ratnavalli’s Children, Myth and Mystery of the Rodi by Richard Boyle
• Handsome Beggars, The Rodiyas of Ceylon. 1957 by M.D. Raghavan
• The story of the Rodi: Sri Lanka's`untouchables'

External links

• Ethnic Groups in Sri lanka - Rodiya
• Image of a Rodiya drum maker
• A language hypothesis for Rodiya
• Ethnologue report on Rodiya language
• Erotic pictures of Rodiya women taken by westerner’s making it round after 100 years