Question

1. Who was considered a "foreigner" in the
past?
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Answer 1

Any stranger who did not belong to a certain society or culture and was not a part of that particular village was regarded as a foreigner.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The word 'foreigner', for example, was used in the medieval period to mean an outsider.

Explanation: This included a person from another village or someone who did not belong to that society or culture. In this context, a person living in a forest is a 'foreigner' for a person living in a city. But, two persons living in hte same village were not considered as foreigners, even if they belonged to different religions or castes.

Today, we use the word 'foreigner' to refer to a person from another country. An equivalent word in Hindi is pardesi and ajnabi in Persian.