"“Untouchability”, however, not only imposes a hiatus upon the various social, cultural and economic links and continua but … has the effect of hiding everything positive to be found below the division created. … “Untouchable” refers to nothing those labelled do or are, merely to what others, negatively, do to them: they are excluded. … They are not to be viewed as artisans, farmers or traders, nor in terms of their ritual contributions, but in terms of the undefined, unclear but certainly devaluing quality of Untouchability."