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UkoKoshka [18]
2 years ago
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Who were the untouchables in the Indian caste system? A. People who served as priests B. People who moved from place to place C.

People who had no land D. People who worked in distasteful jobs
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Ilia_Sergeevich [38]2 years ago
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The answer is D.

Traditionally, the groups characterized as untouchable were those whose occupations and habits of life involved ritually polluting activities, of which the most important were (1) taking life for a living, a category that included, for example, fishermen, (2) killing or disposing of dead cattle or working with their hides for a living, (3) pursuing activities that brought the participant into contact with emissions of the human body, such as feces, urine, sweat, and spittle, a category that included such occupational groups as sweepers and washermen, and (4) eating the flesh of cattle or of domestic pigs and chickens, a category into which most of the indigenous tribes of India fell.
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