WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

Detailed explanation-2: -A caste is a form of social stratification determined by one single factor i.e. ritualistic legitimization of authority. Class of a person is based on multiple factors like economic status, education, power, achievements etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, the opportunities you have access to depend on the family you happened to be born into. The phrase caste system has been around since the 1840s, but we’ve been using caste since the 1500s.

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.