Quotes:Tchandalas

H. P. Blavatsky

Tchandâlas. Outcasts, or people without caste, a name now given to all the lower classes of the Hindus; but in antiquity it was applied to a certain class of men, who, having forfeited their right to any of the four castes‐ — Brâhmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sûdras — were expelled from cities and sought refuge in the forests. Then they became “bricklayers ”, until finally expelled they left the country, some 4,000 years before our era. Some see in them the ancestors of the earlier Jews, whose tribes began with A‐brahm or “ No Brahm ”. To this day it is the class most despised by the Brahmins in India.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Tchandalas