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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system, individuals are expected to marry exclusively within the same caste (endogamy), follow lifestyles often linked to a particular occupation, hold a ritual status observed within a hierarchy, and…

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Etymology

In South Asia

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Europe

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Racial casteism

Caste and higher education

  • India Reservation in India

Caste in sociology and entomology

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Caste

Nodes279
Edges278
Triples309
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007168
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related to Further reading · 27
Caste → Agrarian Territory, Amsterdam, April, Archived, Berlin, David, Dimensions, Early Evidence, Edited, Essays, Gruyter, India, Indian Economic, ISBN, January, Ludden, Mandelbaum, Mouton, New York, Paul Hockings
related to Etymology · 23
Caste → African, English, European, Europeans, Gothic, Iberian Peninsula, In, India, Indian, Indigenous, IPA-label-small, It, John Minsheu's Spanish, Latin American, New World, Portuguese, South Asian, Spanish, The, The English
related to External links · 21
Caste → An, Archive, Archived, Baltimore Sun, Dalits, Eighteenth Century, Encyclopædia BritannicaCastelessAuguste Comte, India, International Dalit Solidarity Network, July, Marguerite Abadjian, Modern Age ISBN, Politics, ScienceCaste, Society, Susan BaylyCaste In Yemen, The Positive Philosophy, The Sociology, Volume, Wayback Machine
related to India · 21
Caste → Brahmin, British, CE, Census Commissioner, Decennial Census, DNA, From, Gupta Empire, Herbert Hope Risley, India, Indian, Indians, Jātis, Kshatriya, Modern India's, Shudra, The, The Vedic, Today, Vaishya
related to Horn of Africa · 20
Caste → Africa, Alula Pankhurst, Broad, Dena Freeman, Dime, Each, Ethiopia, Examples, Gurage, He, In, In Ethiopia, It, Konso, Pankhurst, Southwestern Ethiopia, SW Ethiopia, The Dime, These, Todd
related to West Africa · 20
Caste → Abia, Among, Anambra, Cameroon, Church, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Elijah Obinna, Enugu, Igbo, Imo, Nigeria, Nigerian, Obinna, Once, Osu, Osus, The, The Osu
related to Racial casteism · 18
Caste → Africana, Africana Siddis, Africans, During, In, India, India's, Indian Ocean Slave Trade, Kaffirs, Like, Muslim Arabs, Racial, Siddis, South Asia, Sri Lanka Kaffirs, The, This, United States
related to Latin America · 16
Caste → African, Africans, Españoles, European, European Spaniards, In, India, Indians, Indios, Lower, Republic, República, Spaniards, Spanish America, The Republic, Unlike
related to United States · 14
Caste → Berreman, Blacks, Gerald, In, In India, India, Indian, Isabel Wilkerson, Lloyd Warner, Our Discontents, Southern United States, The, The Origins, United States
related to France and Spain · 13
Caste → Aragón, Basque, Brittany, Béarn, Cagots, For, France, Gascony, It, Navarrese Pyrenees, Spain, The, While

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social system india needed groups castes citation class society based people status discrimination within indian states also systems endogamous lower

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Casteis afixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification0.90text
Casteis adivision of India's Hindu society into rigid social groups0.90text
antsinstance ofis also applied to morphological groupings in eusocial insects0.80text
beesinstance ofis also applied to morphological groupings in eusocial insects0.80text
and termites.The paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste is the division of India's Hindu society into rigid social groupsinstance ofis also applied to morphological groupings in eusocial insects0.80text
Tamil Nadu or those in the north-eastinstance ofin states0.80text
where underprivileged populations predominateinstance ofin states0.80text
over 80instance ofin states0.80text
the Pujavaliyainstance ofAncient Sri Lankan texts0.80text
Sadharmaratnavaliyainstance ofAncient Sri Lankan texts0.80text
Yogaratnakarayainstance ofAncient Sri Lankan texts0.80text
inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal periodinstance ofAncient Sri Lankan texts0.80text

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