If a high-caste Hindu touches one of them he should bathe and have his clothes washed.

These castes are not usually allowed to live inside a Hindu village, but have a hamlet to themselves adjoining it.

The village barber will not shave them, nor the washerman wash their clothes.

They usually have a separate well assigned to them from which to draw water, and if the village has only one well, one side of it is allotted to them and the Hindus take water from the other side.

Formerly they were subjected to more humiliating restrictions.