The story
- Pali · borrowed frombahujana“majority”
- Sanskrit · borrowed fromबहुजन
- English todayBahujan
Borrowed from Sanskrit बहुजन (bahujana) / Pali bahujana (“majority”) as caste oppressed people are the majority of the population. The term was popularized by anti-caste social activists.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.