Caste System and Untouchability in South India

Caste System and Untouchability in South India

This book originally being introduction to the Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes in india volume-1 South India deals with genesis, growth and development of caste system of castes or caste like groups found even during the pre-historic when how and why such groups god transformed into caste system. The book discusses into the caste fold and their location at the lowest level in the existing ritual and social hierarchy.