Bitlaha is a South Asian concept used as a social punishment for violating the norms of exogamy and endogamy. The concept has been used by the Santals of India and the Satars of Nepal, who call themselves hod, meaning “human beings”. The hod in Nepal translate bitlaha as an outcast, disorder, polluted or unclean person. “It is a temporary state that affects both the village and it’s [sic] members…Bitlaha is contagious, affecting a bitlahas parents, guardians and whole village” (Skinner 207). Once a person is considered bitlaha they are no longer considered a member of their ethnic group and they are shunned and exiled from their community. The pancha, a male politician in Hod society, gives the bitlaha a chance to remove the derogatory name and reenter the ethnic group by paying a severe p