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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India

• dominotw 12y ago
  Thats not what he asking. He is asking how caste system relates to toilet issue.
  • lobotryas 12y ago
    FTA: >Only dalits, the lowest Hindu caste, should be exposed to excrement in a closed space, “or city-dwellers who don’t have space to go in the open,” said Sunita, who uses one name, as she washed clothes next to the concrete latrine. “Feces don’t belong under the same roof as where we eat and sleep.”
  • kamaal 12y ago
    Oh, there is some thousands of years of historical perspective behind that. Historically lower castes in India were supposed to be the people responsible for cleaning, janitorial work etc. That's more like putting it mildly, they were sort of forced generations after generations to do absolutely despicable stuff like scavenging human waste. Cleaning streets, gutters etc. What's more you are forbidden to marry outside your caste, and there was a another social disease called untouchability- which was basically you can't share the same space with the lower castes. Like religious places etc. There are some extreme instances where people weren't even allowed to walk on the same roads. They were barred from education, or any other work of dignity. In short the worst kind of jobs were left for the lower caste. And people expect the same to continue, now as well!
    • BrandonMarc 12y ago
      The article also mentions how a common employment of women of the lowest caste is carrying leaky buckets of feces away from the toilet area, often on their heads.