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In 1992, autobiographical writings by these people were collected in Poisoned (10[1])Bread and an anthology co-edited by Eleanor Zelliot. A modernist novel is titled for one of these people who prizes a hockey stick and the “fashun” of Tommies from the British barracks. Latin American testimonios inspired the writings (10[1])of women from this group like Bama (-5[1])and the author of The Prisons We Broke. An uncle and nephew from this group ride the morning express in the prologue of a novel in which they work as tailors for Dina and are later sterilized. (10[2])One of these (10[2])people named Bakha (10[1])titles a 1935 novel by Mulk Raj Anand. (10[2])A (10[1])Communist (10[1])member (10[1])of this group who works at Paradise Pickles (10[1]-5[1])& Preserves (10[2])is beaten to death after he is blamed (-5[1])for the murder (-5[1])of Sophie Mol by Baby Kochamma. For 10 points, Ammu transgresses the “Love Laws” (10[1])with a member (10[1])of what caste named Velutha (10[1])in The God of Small Things? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Dalits [or Dalita; accept Untouchables; accept Scheduled Castes or SCs; accept Chamar or Jatav; accept An Anthology of Dalit Literature; prompt on outcastes; prompt on Malayali, Keralite, Marāṭhī, Indian people, sweepers, or latrine cleaners by asking “of what class?”] (Baby Kamble wrote The Prisons We Broke. The fourth sentence is from A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Anand’s novel is Untouchable. Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%19%111.43

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Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AChicago B1010
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A4810
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AYale B55-5
Justin ChenNYU ACornell B9210
Enoch YuenImperial AUC Berkeley A9210
Chris RayOhio State AYale A9510
Nathan ZhangCornell AVirginia A9510
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ASouth Carolina A9810
Ashish SubramanianDuke AChicago C10610
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AMIT A10610
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BColumbia A10710
Jim FanNorth Carolina AIowa State A10810
Matt JacksonChicago APenn A10910
Todd MaslykMichigan AIllinois A117-5
Aum MundheRutgers AVanderbilt A11710
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BTexas A11910
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AMaryland A11910
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B127-5
Shardul RaoMinnesota AHouston A130-5
Justin HawkinsIndiana AColumbia B14410
Walter ZhangBrown ANorthwestern A14710
Mitch McCullarIllinois AMichigan A15210
Frederick Rivas-GiorgiYale BPurdue A15810
Puna EkkaMinnesota BGeorgia Tech B15910
John BroussardHouston AMinnesota A15910