1. People who take up dignified professions are considered as higher caste people and those who take up undignified professions are called people of low caste and are treated as untouchables.
2. People of low castes are not allowed to enter temples, and the houses of the people of upper caste; their children are not allowed to sit with the children of higher caste people.
3. They are not allowed to take water from the wells.
4. This discrimination went on for ages based on the caste system.
Thus the caste system promoted inequalities among people.
