HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Increasing Varnasamkara
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Religious sects being converted into castes
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Increasing greater absorption of tribes as castes
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Occupational groups turning into castes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reasons of numerous castes in early medieval India Increasing pride of birth, characteristic of feudal society, and the accompanying self-sufficient village economy, which prevented both spatial and occupational mobility, gave rise to thousands of castes in India during the early medieval Period.
Detailed explanation-2: -Proliferation of castes led to inclusion of vanij or merchant profession and the like, within the Vaishya varna. Proliferation of crafts and artisanal productions led to expansion of vanij castes primarily associated with gems, pearls, corals, metals, woven clothes, perfumes and condiments.
Detailed explanation-3: -It divided society into four varnas: Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras.
Detailed explanation-4: -(C). PROLIFERATION OF CASTES: STATUS OF UNTOUCHABLES. The caste system, which had been established much earlier continued to be the basis of the society in the Early Medieval times as well. But there were important changes within the caste system.