Crossword-Solution: PARIAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They roam where they list—in a country where all other people are held under strict surveillance, no one seems to care about these Parias.

God forbid that we should inflict on her the curse of a new caste, that we should send her a new breed of Brahmins, authorised to treat all the native population as Parias! With a view to the prevention of this evil, we propose to give to the Supreme Government the power of legislating for Europeans as well as for natives.

The business is not to Lakme's taste, but it is not for the like of her to neglect the opportunity offered to win applause with the legend of the pariah's daughter, with its tintinnabulatory charm:-- Ou va la jeune Hindoue Fille des parias; Quand la lune se joue Dans les grand mimosas? It is the "Bell song," which has tinkled so often in our concert-rooms.

But it may be asked, is the name Parias or Pariagotos, a name merely geographical? Did the Spaniards, who frequented these coasts from their first establishment in the island of Cubagua and in Macarapana, give the name of the promontory of Paria* to the tribe by which it was inhabited? (* Paria, Uraparia, even Huriaparia and Payra, are the ancient names of the country, written as the first navigators thought they heard them pronounced.

Strange rites here, where the archway's shade is deeper, Are consummated in the river bed; Parias steal the rotten railway sleeper To burn the bodies of their cholera dead.