[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Caste and Race in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932) › c8.187 # Caste and Race in India c8.187 Caste and Race in India c8.187 - **Language:** English ### [c8.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8.187) In the treatment of the outcast section of the society this period witnesses a development which is in keeping with the ideas of ceremonial purity. Untouchability is graded according to the supposed impurity of the object. A Brahmin should keep a distance of one yuga, two, three, and four yugas between himself and a degraded person, a woman in her period, a parturient woman, and a Caṇḍāla respectively in order that he may not catch pollution from them.² - [Previous: c8.186](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8.186) - [Next: c8.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8.188) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghurye-1932.c8.187) · Pramāṇa