Shudras

Shudra, also spelled Sudra, are the fourth and lowest of the traditional or social classes, of India, and are usually artisans and labourers. Unlike the Brahmans (priests and teachers), Kshatriya (nobles and warriors), and Vaishya (merchants)—Shudras are not allowed to study of the Vedas (earliest sacred literature of India).

The Varna color of the Shudras is Black

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 * 1) For those individual in society who showed ignorance, inertia, and dullness, they were represented by the color Black (tamas = inert, solid). Those belonging to this color are thought to be dependent on the rest of the world for motivation and seek nothing as they exist in those of the servile disposition and make up the Shudra class.

The Shudras are the largest group of people in the Indian Caste system. There is a wide range of Shudras. Some can be very poor and close to untouchable. Others can be wealthy land owners who have plenty of money.

Depending on your job and the money that you make you can be called a clean or an unclean shudra. For example, washers, tanners, shoemakers, sweepers, and scavengers would be considered as low as an untouchable and considered "unclean". Farmers, servants, and landowners would be considered "clean".

For most shudras they do not have much food to eat. They will do almost any job to get enough money to eat and to drink. They will do any job except for the jobs the untouchables do.

All the material things in India are supposed to be produced by the Shudras like crops, pulses, milk, metal, oil, vessels, instruments, pots, clothes, wooden material and any conceivable item which can be used and which requires manual labor.

__** Daily Life **__

In their daily life a Shudra may not have a meal for breakfast lunch or dinner since food and money is very scarce. Shudra wake up early and go to work and go to be very late at night after a long day of work. You usually share a home with your entire family which includes parents, grandparents or both parents, siblings and any husbands/wives or your siblings. Children in general will not go to school, but will work from a young age. Children do not have much time for play and spend some time begging for money or food if they are not working.