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How did the rigid caste system affect the Shudras?
How did the rigid caste system in the Later Vedic period affect the Shudras?
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Solution
Shudras were increasingly isolated and persecuted. They were denied the right to study the religious scriptures and were not even allowed to recite the Sanskrit hymns.
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