Actions of Mahatma Gandhi against caste system in the past?

In Indian history many people like Ambedkar, etc. have tried to make a change in the society and have even inspired many people like Mahatma Gandhi to go against the caste system and eradicate caste system and free the people who suffered due to the caste system.


Mahatma Gandhi took many actions to eradicate caste system as he lived with the dalits even though he was too rich and even wished to live in poverty as when he was in the jail his letters to his son clearly mention this.  and even he sacrificed wearing all the blazers, etc. and believed in peace and simplicity. Not only this but he even started working in the Indian handicraft industries and started many of them for the lower caste people.

caste systems existence in Indian History?

In Indian history, Jatis were grouped by the Brahmins text under the four categories, known as Hinduism. those four categories were

1. Brahmins
2. Kshatriyas
3. Vaishyas
4. Shudras

 In this categories certain groups were excluded like "Dalits" due to their occupations as they were the cleaners who cleaned other peoples house and helped them, later people started discriminating them as
"untouchables" due to thier work.

 Later this led to the discrimination in other religions as the Hinduism religion strongly followed it other religions like Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and Sikhs even followed it.

What do you mean by caste system?

Caste system is a social structure in which classes are determined by physical or mental characteristics from one generation to another or the discrimination based on caste by creating groups on the basis of their occupation, etc.