Question

what are the characteristics of untouchability​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

• Prohibition from eating with other members

• Provision of separate cups in village tea stalls

• Separate seating arrangements and utensils in restaurants

• Segregation in seating and food arrangements at village functions and festivals

• Prohibition from entering places of public worship

• Prohibition from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of higher caste members

• Prohibition from entering other caste homes

• Prohibition from using common village paths

• Separate burial/cremation grounds

• Prohibition from accessing common/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.)

• Segregation (separate seating area) of children in schools

• Bonded labour

• Social boycotts by other castes for refusing to perform their "duties"

Answer 2

Answer:

Untouchability, in its literal sense, is the practice of ostracising a minority group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate.

The term is most commonly associated with treatment of the Dalit communities in the Indian subcontinent who were considered "polluting", but the term has also been loosely used to refer to other groups, such as the Cagots in Europe, and the Al-Akhdam in Yemen.[1] Traditionally, the groups characterized as untouchable were those whose occupations and habits of life involved ritually polluting activities, such as fishermen, manual scavengers, sweepers and washermen.[2]

Untouchability has been outlawed in India, Nepal and Pakistan. However, "untouchability" has not been legally defined.[citation needed] The origin of untouchability and its historicity are still debated. B. R. Ambedkar believed that untouchability has existed at least as far back as 400 CE.[3] A recent study of a sample of households in India concludes that "Notwithstanding the likelihood of under-reporting of the practice of untouchability, 70 percent of the population reported not indulging in this practice. This is an encouraging sign.

Prohibition from eating with other members

Provision of separate cups in village tea stalls

Separate seating arrangements and utensils in restaurants

Segregation in seating and food arrangements at village functions and festivals

Prohibition from entering places of public worship

Prohibition from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of higher caste members

Prohibition from entering other caste homes

Prohibition from using common village paths

Separate burial/cremation grounds

Prohibition from accessing common/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.)

Segregation (separate seating area) of children in schools

Bonded labour

Social boycotts by other castes for refusing to perform their "duties"[18]