The caste system in India was static as a result of the social unrest in the 1920s.
=== Later-Mughal period (1700 to 1850) ===Susan Bayly, an anthropologist, notes that "caste is not and never has been a fixed fact of Indian life" and the caste system as we know it today, as a "ritualised scheme of social stratification," developed in two stages during the post-Mughal period, in 18th and early 19th century
 The discrimination and trauma of castes, argued Gandhi, was the result of custom, the origin of which is unknown

