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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The discriminatory practice of treating certain communities as ritually polluting and excluding them from social or religious participation.
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Paper 1
Revise: Prejudice and Discrimination in HinduismDalits were traditionally excluded from the four-varna system. They experienced ‘untouchability’: discrimination based on the belief that contact with them caused ritual pollution. This is not simply a distinction between occupations; it denies people equal participation and dignity.
Gandhi opposed untouchability but retained a role for varna; Ambedkar wanted to dismantle caste divisions.
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