who were untouchable?How did mahatma gandhi fight against untouchability?
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Untouchability, in its literal sense, is the practice of ostracising a group of people regarded as 'untouchables', as ascribed in the Vedic Hindu literature to persons of "low caste" or to persons excluded from the caste system resulting in the segregation and persecutions from the people regarded as "higher" caste.
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Heyya!
In traditional Indian society, people of lower castes were considered as untouchables. They were considered weak and had low social status in the society. They were treated in a very unfair and unjust way. They weren't allowed to get the same equal rights as others and had to work hard for the high caste people.
Gandhi Ji did a lot to help stop untouchability. In 1932, He founded the Harijan Sevak Sangh as part of his efforts to eradicate the concept of untouchability from India's caste system. He put his close friend, the pioneering industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla, in charge of the organization.