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Ram Charan
Gulabo is Ram Charan’s mother and a washer-woman in Bulashah. Though she was very pretty in her youth, time and physical work have aged her, and now she resents Sohini both for her sweeper status and for her good looks; at one point, when both of them are waiting in line for water, Gulabo threatens to physically hit Sohini. Because she believes that washer-men and washer-women are the highest ranking among the outcastes, she often berates Ram Charan for spending any time with Bakha. Gulabo is depicted as greedy, calculating, and quick to anger, and she represents the way caste divisions destroy solidarity.
Gulabo Quotes in Untouchable
The Untouchable quotes below are all either spoken by Gulabo or refer to Gulabo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pages 3–43
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The expectant outcastes were busy getting their pictures ready, but as that only meant shifting themselves into position so to be nearest to this most bountiful, most generous of men, all their attention was fixed on him [Pundit Kali Nath]. […] But the Brahmin, becoming interested in the stirrings of his stomach, and the changing phases of his belly, looked, for a moment, absent-minded. A subtle wave of warmth seemed to have descended slowly down from his arms to the pit of his abdomen, and he felt a strange stirring above his navel such as he had not experienced for months, so pleasing was it in its intimations of the relief it would bring him.
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Gulabo Quotes in Untouchable
The Untouchable quotes below are all either spoken by Gulabo or refer to Gulabo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Pages 3–43
Quotes
The expectant outcastes were busy getting their pictures ready, but as that only meant shifting themselves into position so to be nearest to this most bountiful, most generous of men, all their attention was fixed on him [Pundit Kali Nath]. […] But the Brahmin, becoming interested in the stirrings of his stomach, and the changing phases of his belly, looked, for a moment, absent-minded. A subtle wave of warmth seemed to have descended slowly down from his arms to the pit of his abdomen, and he felt a strange stirring above his navel such as he had not experienced for months, so pleasing was it in its intimations of the relief it would bring him.
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