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- noun In India, a person who lives in the
slums of cities.
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Examples
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Neuwirth, who has been dubbed "slumdog economist" for his extensive work in squatter communities, thinks it's time that the developing world woke up to the "unfettered entrepreneurialism" that is thriving in the world's most marginal neighborhoods and unrelenting slums.
Forbes.com: News eliseackerman 2012
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They say the use of the word slumdog is offensive and one cinema showing the film was ransacked.
IBN Top Headlines 2009
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I have to say, though, that if I were protesting about the film, as certain groups in India are, it would not be about pictures of poverty or the word slumdog but about the images of torture in a Bombay police station, where Jamal is badly beaten up and given vicious electric shocks just because he knows things above his notional class.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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They say the use of the word slumdog is offensive and one cinema showing the film was ransacked.
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I have to say, though, that if I were protesting about the film, as certain groups in India are, it would not be about pictures of poverty or the word slumdog but about the images of torture in a Bombay police station, where Jamal is badly beaten up and given vicious electric shocks just because he knows things above his notional class.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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But how is it possible that a "slumdog" - the dregs of the Hindu caste system - could transcend such bad karma?
deCOMPOSE 2009
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Why did the fictional slur "slumdog" and the image of poverty reportedly figure so often in the Australian attacks?
Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room Vamsee Juluri 2010
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Why did the fictional slur "slumdog" and the image of poverty reportedly figure so often in the Australian attacks?
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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Which means I'll be a "slumdog" soon, whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.
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Why did the fictional slur "slumdog" and the image of poverty reportedly figure so often in the Australian attacks?
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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