British Raj dan Kasta: Apabila mula berkuasa di India pada tahun 1757, mereka mengeksploitasi sistem kasta sebagai alat kawalan sosial.
The aryas are renamed vis or Vaishya meaning the members of the tribe and the new elite classes of Brahmins priests and Kshatriyas warriors are designated as new varnas.
There has been a growth in total number of crimes reported under the Act in recent years but conviction rates have been low.
Recent scholarship states that the discussion of outcastes in post-Vedic texts is different from the system widely discussed in colonial era Indian literature, and in Dumont's structural theory on caste system in India.