Musahar
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Musahar or Mushahar are a Dalit community found in the eastern Gangetic plain and the Terai. They are also known as Rishidev, Sada, Manjhi, Banbasi. The other names of the Musahar are Bhuiyan and Rajawar. there are many who are still forced to do this work due to destitution and poverty.
Musahar woman collecting firewood near Sauraha, Chitwan District, Nepal
Photo of a Musahar taken as part of a caste survey by Herbert Hope Risley in Bihar, 1890s
Dalit
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Dalit, also some of them previously known as untouchables, is the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Several scholars have drawn parallels between Dalits and the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea and the peasant class of the medieval European feudal system.
A group of Dalit women in 2021
A school of untouchables near Bangalore, by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Dalit leaders at Bahujan Samaj Party head office
A Sikh gurdwara in Smethwick. The majority of gurdwaras in Britain are caste-based and one can indirectly inquire about a person's caste based upon which gurdwara the person attends.