The caste system in India caused much social unrest.
=== 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 caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system

