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When the Body Becomes a Temple: The Ramnami Samaj

Denied entry into temples, they did not argue they carried Ram on their skin instead. TWF-IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh traces how Chhattisgarhs Ramnami Samaj, a Dalit devotional community that began tattooing the name of Ram across their bodies in the 1890s as a quiet act of resistance against caste exclusion, has travelled from the []

4 Oct 2026 9:32 am