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Rodiya
Rodi or Rodiya are one of the widely reported untouchable social group or caste amongst the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. Their status was very similar to all the Untouchable castes of India with segregated communities, ritualized begging, eating off the refuse of upper castes and refusal for the women and men to cover their upper bodies.
==Origins==
There is a great deal of mystery surrounding their origins and their former debased status. Many sociologists and anthropologists and even linguists have documented and commented on their status. The common theory is that at one time Rodiya were like the Veddas of Sri Lanka, hunting and gathering tribe that eventually came to survive on the margins of civilized society and got incorporated as a caste.
But why as an untouchable versus the assimilation of many Veddas as Govigama or the highest castes of the land? That question is also generally answered by the alleged cannibalistic past of the caste. Either the community itself indulged in cannibalism or were propitiating their deity Ratnavali also known as Navaratna Valli with human sacrifice. Valli is the name of the tribal consort of Hindu deity Murukan in South India and Sri Lanka.
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