WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Often referred to as “untouchable, ‘’ Dalits were historically ostracized from community life and limited to the most menial jobs.

Detailed explanation-2: -These four castes are the Brahmins (priests, teachers), Kshatriyas (rulers, warriors), Vaishyas (landowners, merchants) and Sudras (servants), and the 5th group is the group of the untouchables, called Dalits.

Detailed explanation-3: -Each region in India has its own ranking of jatis. However, in every region, the Dalits are at the bottom of the hierarchy and over the centuries, have faced discrimination.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dalits are historically Shudras. They were part of the Harappans who built the pre-Aryan agrarian and urban civilisation by 3000 BCE.

Detailed explanation-5: -Untouchability is the practice of discriminating various individuals and groups based on their cast and the jobs done by them. Untouchability is practiced for a very long time. It works on the Indian caste system hierarchy. The untouchables usually bear inhuman treatment because they belong to the lower caste.

Detailed explanation-6: -Dalit is a term that the so-called lower castes use to address themselves. Dalit means broken and by using this word, lower castes are pointing to how they were, and continue to be, seriously discriminated against. Was this answer helpful?