scheduled classes

scheduled classes
   those condemned by birth to menial employment
   Indian society retains gradations which would provide endless occupation for those whose function it is to seize upon and punish any form of discrimination:
    ... the Dulits (or scheduled classes or harijans or untouchables, to take the wounding nomenclature back through its earlier stages)... (Naipaul, 1990)

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