HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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they were considered unclean
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they wanted to stay pure
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they shared all their goods
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they had to eat a special diet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under India’s caste system, Dalits are considered untouchable.
Detailed explanation-2: -Solution: Untouchability is the individual discrimination against certain classes of persons. Dalits are sometimes called Untouchables. Untouchables are regarded as ‘low caste’ and have been marginalized for centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Untouchables” were denied access to temples and to the village well. Their children could not sit next to the children of other castes in school. They could only take up menial jobs and not any other jobs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ambedkar, an Indian social reformer and politician who came from a social group that was considered untouchable, theorized that untouchability originated because of the deliberate policy of the upper-caste Brahmanas. According to him, the Brahmanas despised the people who gave up the Brahmanism in favour of Buddhism.