He wasn't allowed to sit on chairs or eat next to his fellow students. As you can imagine, his family wouldn't have had access to nowhere near the resources that other people in a village or in a city would have had access to. They would have been actively discriminated with. They wouldn't have been able to even make physical contact with members of the formal Varna system. But despite all of that discrimination, he was able to get a significant education and eventually become India's first law minister, and not only that, but the principal architect of the Indian Constitution. And this is what he wrote about the caste system. "'Caste is not a physical object, "'like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire "'which prevents the Hindus from commingling "'and which has therefore to be pulled down.