| Elsewhere, where Hindus did convert, it was not the hoped-for Brahmins, but the powerless and disenfranchized lower castes and untouchables who made the change. |
| Rather, untouchables are outcastes placed below the sudra caste. |
| With the exception of the Brahmans and the untouchables the middle level was extremely heterogeneous and often unidentifiable within the four-fold varna. |
| The speech leaves one with the feeling that there are the privileged, the protected, the favourites and the untouchables. |
| During a recent visit, I found liberals and intellectuals, jet-setters and slum dwellers, men and women, Brahmins and untouchables expressing this Hindu pride. |
| Traditionally there are four castes in the Hindu religion, the fifth section of society being the untouchables, so lowly they are considered outside the caste system. |
