HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Untouchables
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Brahmins
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Dravidians
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Vedas
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Detailed explanation-1: -pariah, member of a low-caste group of Hindu Indian society, formerly known as “untouchables” but now called Dalits.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories-Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to the religious Hindu text, untouchables were not considered a part of the varna system. Therefore, they were not treated like the savarnas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras).
Detailed explanation-5: -“Untouchable” is a name for members of the lowest caste in India, called Dalit or nowadays “Scheduled caste”. The word “Dalit” stands for “suppressed, smashed, broken into pieces” in Sanskrit. 200 million Indian people are still considered to be members of this caste.