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Pregnant out of wedlock. Her neighbors parade her through the streets on the back of a donkey.

They advertise her shame for all to see.

Her shaven skull and swollen belly exposed to mockery and jeers.

Bundles of switches are distributed to the crowd. These will be used drive them victim and her steed through the streets.

Driven from the village, she will find no shelter anywhere.

The donkey ride is still carried out in remote villages in India. The woman is stripped, sometimes tonsured, her face blackened with charcoal, shoes strung around her neck.

The upper castes punish women of the lowest caste in this way.