The untouchables were not really considered a caste, but a separate group altogether.
True or False?
2006-09-20 03:34:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It's not False! It's actually true! Don't beleive anyone who says it's false becasue it's not!!!!
2006-09-20 03:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by malcam_r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Untouchables
The untouchables were the outcastes, or people beyond the caste system. Their jobs or habits involved "polluting activities" including:
Any job that involved ending a life, such as fishing.
Killing or disposing of dead cattle or working with their hides.
Any contact with human emissions such as sweat, urine, or feces. This included occupational groups such as sweepers and washermen.
People who ate meat. This category included most of the primitive Indian hill tribes.
Untouchables were often forbidden to enter temples, schools and wells where higher castes drew water. In some parts of southern India, even the sight of untouchables was thought to be polluting. The untouchables forced to sleep during the day and work at night. Many untouchables left their rigid social structure by converting to Islam, Buddhism, or Christianity.
The Caste System has been illegal in India for more than fifty years, but it continues to shape people's lives. The Indian government has provided the Harijan a term now popularly used in place of untouchable, with specific employment privileges, and granted them special representation in the Indian parliament. Despite such measures, the Harijan continue to have fewer educational and employment opportunities than Indians from higher castes.
MY GUESS WOULD BE TRUE.
2006-09-20 11:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False
2006-09-20 10:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
True.. As per the caste system the fourth caste was called "shudras" which meant the people who are workers. Among these, the people who used to do the low sort of work were considered shudras. There were whole lot of sub casts who used to do this work only.. generation after generation do just that work.
2006-09-20 11:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would go with False as they were treated as a caste and still are in some areas.
2006-09-20 10:56:36 · answer #5 · answered by jazideol 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True
2006-09-20 10:44:55 · answer #6 · answered by Love 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
false,they were very much part of the varna system.
2006-09-20 10:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by knu 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is false
2006-09-20 10:50:55 · answer #8 · answered by minnie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-09-20 11:03:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋