In the past, India's people were divided into castes. How did being in a low caste affect people's lives?

That meant that they had more "low quality" things. Their jobs were the ones that were not wanted to be done by higher caste members, and their homes were usually small with little or no working things like water, etc. They were more known for getting sick because of the poor healthcare they had as well.

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification.

The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on their karma (work) and dharma (the Hindi word for religion, but here it means duty) is generally accepted to be more than 3,000 years old