CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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brahmin
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kshatriya
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untouchable
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vaishya
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dalit (from Sanskrit: , romanized: dalita meaning “broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Untouchables” from India, now more often known as Dalits, say the caste system and the perception of them as the lowest of the low have followed them to America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories-Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation.
Detailed explanation-4: -specifically, dated, offensive : a member of the lowest class in the traditional Hindu social hierarchy having in traditional Hindu belief the quality of defiling by contact a member of a higher caste : dalit.