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In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came from castes that were regarded as “low”?



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During the British period several new opportunities were opened up for the people who came from castes that were regarded as low. The following account reveals this:

  1. The poor began leaving their villages to look for jobs that were opening up in the cities. There was work in the factories and jobs in municipalities.
  2. Drains had to be dug, roads laid, buildings constructed, and cities cleaned. This needed coolies, diggers, carriers, bricklayers, sewage cleaners, sweepers, palanquin bearers, rickshaw pullers.
  3. Some of them also went to work in plantations in Assam, Mauritius, Trinidad and Indonesia.
  4. The poor, and the people from low castes, saw this as an opportunity to get away from the oppressive hold of the upper-caste landowners.
  5. There were other jobs too. The army, for instance, offered opportunities.
  6. Numerous Mahar people, who were regarded as untouchable, found jobs in the Mahar Regiment.
  7. The father of B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of the Dalit movement, taught at an army school.

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