This verse from the Rig Veda (1/114/8) makes this clear: Mundeshwari Temple Kaimur: Such a wonderful court of the Goddess where if even a grain of rice is thrown at the goat, it becomes unconscious.

Breaking the shackles of caste-based discrimination, practiced in a rural pocket of West Bengal for nearly three centuries, representatives of 130 Dalit families for the first time set foot inside ...