WORLD HISTORY

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: -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: -Hence, caste groups are exogamous is not a feature of caste system in India.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Dalits were a group of ethnic people in India who weren’t included in the four-varna system.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Varna system in Dharma-shastras divides society into four varnas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishya and Shudras). Those who fall out of this system because of their grievous sins are ostracised as outcastes (untouchables) and considered outside the varna system.

Detailed explanation-6: -People from the Dalit community were referred to as the ‘Untouchables’.