Question

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

Answer 1

Explanation:

job opportunities were opening in the cities many new opportunities were available in factories as workers also as sweepers and diggers

Answer 2

The poor from the villages and small towns, many of them from low castes, began moving to the cities where there was a new demand for labour. Some also went to work in plantations in Assam, Mauritius, Trinidad and Indonesia. The poor and the people from low castes saw this as an opportunity to get away from the oppressive hold that upper-caste landowners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered.