WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The caste system is a division of people into distinct groups based on occupation or lineage. Many times, this creates discriminatory practices. Each level has its own rights and obligations. At the bottom of these systems, there is always the lowest caste that is considered untouchable to the rest of the population.

Detailed explanation-2: -Caste is determined by birth-a child is “born into” the caste of his parents. Caste is never a matter of choice. One can never change one’s caste, leave it, or choose not to join it, although there are instances where a paerson maybe expelled from their caste.

Detailed explanation-3: -In their words, “The reign of the ardent Hindu Gupta rulers, known as the age of Vedic Brahminism, was marked by strictures laid down in Dharmasastra… enforced through the powerful state machinery. These strictures and enforcements resulted in a shift to endogamy.” In other words, caste was born.

Detailed explanation-4: -untouchable, also called Dalit, officially Scheduled Caste, formerly Harijan, in traditional Indian society, the former name for any member of a wide range of low-caste Hindu groups and any person outside the caste system.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to one long-held theory about the origins of South Asia’s caste system, Aryans from central Asia invaded South Asia and introduced the caste system as a means of controlling the local populations. The Aryans defined key roles in society, then assigned groups of people to them.