bhangi

See also: Bhangi

English

Noun

bhangi (plural bhangis)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Bhangi
    • 1946 June 23, Mohandas Gandhi, in Harijan, reprinted in Economic Thought, published 1962:
      At a stroke the bhangis will raise scavenging to a fine art and give it the status it should have had long ago.
    • 1960, Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Mahatma: life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Volume 7‎, page 165:
      The sight of a bhangi carrying the night-soil basket on his head made him sick.
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