Read the following passage and answer the below question: While dominant landowning groups are usually middle or high ranked castes, most of the marginal farmers and landless belong to lower caste groups. In official classification they belong to the Scheduled Castes or Tribes (SC/ STs) or Other Backward Classes (OBCs). In many regions of India, the former ‘Untouchable’ or dalit castes were not allowed to own land and they provided most of the agricultural labour for the dominant landowning groups. This also created a labour force that allowed the landowners to cultivate the land intensively and get higher returns.

Which one of the following is not characteristic of Untouchable caste:

any group of people outside the Hindu caste system associated with activities like business, trading, etc. pursuing activities like wage labourer, killing or disposing of dead cattle or working with their hides for a living Prohibition from entering places of public worship.

associated with activities like business, trading, etc.

Under Hindu Caste system, Vaisyas are associated with trading and other business activities.