While the Indian caste system has been in existence for 2,000 years, Portuguese and British colonial influence dramatically restructured the system in the fifteenth century. Identify the actions of colonial governments that affected the caste system in India.

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Hannah Frederick

17 August, 08:08

While the Indian caste system has been in existence for 2,000 years, Portuguese and British colonial influence dramatically restructured the system in the fifteenth century. Identify the actions of colonial governments that affected the caste system in India.

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The India's caste structure is a societal system that categorized and segregated different groups into ranked categories. The Members that belongs to the "higher" castes have a greater social status than people who belong to a "lower" caste.

The Colonial governments when they came dramatically restructured the system by:

Establishing laws that removed some particular groups from their ancestral lands. They also replicated the class systems that are being practiced in England.