Milestones Nov. 21, 2005
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DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean.
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