... who traveled to India during the reign of Candra Gupta II (ruled 376-415 AD), refers to "pollution on approach"; that is, pollution from coming close to an Untouchable or outcast (Basham 66). During these early times, leather workers (who are impure because they work with dead animal skin) ... or Hinduism because they lived in remote areas. During Breman's period of observation, they became agricultural workers for the land-owning, higher caste Brahmins. Breman quotes J.A. Baines, who suggested that the migration of Brahmins into new regions, previously occupied by tribals, created a sy...

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