37, and shudra Kamlakar, p.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
Over each, at the start, hangs poverty, ignorance, the dumb helplessness of the shudra, and yet in each there is that indescribable something, that element of essential gentleness, that innate inward beauty which levels all barriers of caste, and makes Esther a fit queen for Ahasuerus.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken
It was only a foolish curiosity-bitten shudra; a wretched member of the lowest and most servile class, who, passing on his way to his miserable hovel, had noticed the gate open at the untoward hour of midnight, and the absence of the ferocious durwans.
"Leonie of the Jungle"
Joan Conquest