This is a strange kind of caste system and women find it very hard to break. |
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It is a sign that they are all the same community and can live and eat together without losing caste. |
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He added that the deeply entrenched caste system meant it was almost impossible for people of lower castes to assume any position of power. |
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If they had been, they surely would have been more concerned with religion, and even caste, than mere Asianness. |
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As I am a Dalit, a member of a lower caste, the discrimination I faced angered me, and I wanted to do something about it. |
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The caste system reflects Indian historical occupation and religiously defined hierarchies. |
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But there was precious little serious reporting on just what precisely is entailed in our economic caste system of haves and have-nots. |
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While Bhutan has no caste system, a pattern of discrimination against the minority Hindus of Nepalese origin exists. |
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For another, the hierarchical, non-democratic, caste systems of childhood have nothing in common with contemporary political credos. |
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In practice, the inherited distinction between rural and urban residents produces a deeply entrenched caste system. |
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For instance, in the lower caste systems within India, is expected that children will perform manual labour to help repay family debt. |
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The caste system was obliterated legally, with one stroke of the pen, the day free India was born. |
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Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles. |
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The original caste system was based on self-discipline through education and through personal sadhana. |
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However, he was categorical that he was not attempting to glorify a caste or violence. |
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Although caste officially does not exist, everyone knows not only their own caste, but that of everyone else. |
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By himself becoming a Hindu and a sannyasin, he has challenged the obnoxious caste system. |
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Strictly speaking, class and caste are different social institutions, though castes are often assumed to fit into the four varnas. |
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The caste system was envisaged as the expression and codification of the social and ethnic realities inherent in all societies. |
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Language communicates, but it also divides-people from people, caste from caste, in-group from out-group. |
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The latter believed in caste system and untouchability, polytheism, idolatry, etc. |
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This cannot be long tolerated without in fact creating more dispersion in their own caste order. |
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A Vaishnava in his early life, he became a worshipper of brahm and condemned the caste system. |
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Whenever a Hindu inquires about other Hindus, what he actually wants to know is their caste. |
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Most graphic arts fall within the domain of traditional production by Hindu caste groups. |
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The caste system is the most misunderstood, the most vilified subject of Hindu society. |
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The bad name attributed to Hinduism on account of the caste discrimination will vanish in one stroke. |
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For example a common myth is that caste system and untouchability is fundamental to Hinduism. |
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But maybe class is not an issue for them because they are both now so firmly part of that powerful caste, the chattering classes. |
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Yet, sentiments and solidarities based on caste starkly exist within its organisational set-up. |
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Besides, though he was a Vaishya by caste, he was all praise for the Varnashrama institution of India. |
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The disability is imposed upon the caste and as a member of the caste that is his lot. |
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Gurus may come from any caste group, and Brahmins need not be spiritual guides, though many are. |
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The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism. |
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The Celt's priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore. |
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Devi's life story, which has revolved around caste conflicts, has entered Indian folklore. |
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The discrimination against women in the name of caste and creed and the resultant ostracising too would be fought vigorously. |
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In case your Hinduism is a little rusty, the Brahmans are the priest caste in traditional Hindu society. |
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These women would ritually marry men of a superior caste, have numerous lovers, and bear legitimate children. |
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Members of the caste keep family records and can trace a genealogy to a clan's mythical ancestors. |
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A caste system resting on soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and officers mirrored a civilian stratification of workers, foremen, and managers. |
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For this, we will have to adopt the concept of brotherhood and fraternity and work together, regardless of caste and creed. |
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Radio has killed all the good gags and is responsible for the present low caste of gagsters and gags. |
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He is a Dalit, a member of a lowly caste that traditionally performed the most menial tasks in Indian society. |
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By memorialising him in a suit, the Dalits were celebrating his successful storming of an upper caste citadel. |
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Even in High Courts and embassies, the number of Dalits employed is a fraction of upper caste staff. |
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Never did I, or any other boy from a lower caste, get a chance to lead the prayers at the morning assembly. |
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The tabloids condemned them, not unfittingly, as the curdled dregs of an outmoded caste. |
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Banyankole society is divided into a high-ranked caste of pastoralists and a lower-ranked caste of farmers. |
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Singh is used as a common surname and middle name in North India mainly by the Rajputs caste and the Sikhs. |
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Buddha challenged the Vedic practice of rigid sacrificial rituals and the practice of caste systems. |
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These farmers are mostly uneducated but they take full advantage of the benefits they can derive from their upper caste status. |
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Most are from among the Untouchables in the now outlawed caste system, and regard it as their duty to pay off their parents' debts. |
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What makes all this more ironic is that these exhausted women were the original Amazons, the warrior caste Alexander supposedly would not fight. |
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These are as important contribution to the Maithili literature as are the writings of upper caste. |
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The Samoans are considered by many of the earlier arrivers to Hawaii to be the unwashed, much like the caste system in India. |
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Let us make the best of this virtue by living it, by making colour, caste, language and similar distinctions irrelevant among us. |
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Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. |
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He is credited with the conversion of the Khojas from the Hindu caste of the Lohanas. |
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No human community ever existed in the past, nor does it exist now which does not have caste system in one form or the other. |
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Even though Manipuris are Hindu, the Indian caste system is not the basis of social stratification. |
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This image displayed a fantasy of a superior warrior caste, responsive to the demands of theater. |
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He cannot do anything about his time at Eton but he must make more connections outside a privileged caste of friends. |
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In Britain, the show has been ballyhooed by the political caste, which isn't surprising, since it glorifies their trade. |
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Only a prince could be captain and stand apart from the competing interests of sectionalism, race, caste, creed and customs. |
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As he says, In the standard Hindu view one's birth in a particular caste is determined by one's karma in a previous life. |
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Many men, however, also saw it as their duty to bring honour to their clan or caste, by fighting bravely on the battlefield. |
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He belonged to the noble or warrior caste and is depicted as wealthy and indulgent towards his son. |
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Every caste, tribe, town, village, and religion has a panoply of traditional ceremonies that are observed with enthusiasm and wide participation. |
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Since he is from the same caste as Niharika, her father agrees to give him her hand in marriage. |
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A republican government does not comfortably coexist with a submerged caste within the population. |
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Likewise, a lower caste will rarely marry his son or daughter to a person belonging to another caste. |
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And the masses also defy all caste and communal barriers on such crucial junctions and vote to restore social and national health. |
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Religious-mystical theories, biological theories and socio-historical theories explain the existence of the caste system. |
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Here the mind is not limited by any reductionism such as religion, caste, nationality etc. |
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Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment. |
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He insisted that the Soviet bureaucracy was not, as Trotsky had analyzed, a reactionary privileged caste, but rather a new ruling class. |
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Eusocial aphids have an altruistic soldier caste that defends colonies from natural enemies. |
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The birth certificate issued by municipal offices in Punjab has a distinct compulsory column for caste. |
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There is little mobility because membership in a particular caste group is hereditary. |
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On this particular day, lower caste women go with baskets on their heads, in which there is an oilcan or bottle. |
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Will it be lineage, caste and community politics or being on the right side of thirty? |
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Because if you are only born a Hindu, then obviously you are born into a caste. |
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It is only on the level of the third, the Vaishya caste, that life is devoted primarily to the ideology of wealth. |
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Speakers said the Dalits suffer under the Hindu caste hierarchy and this move restores their self-respect. |
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He was born into the Brahman caste which meant he was from the highest ranking caste of Hindu priests. |
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Individuals of the worker caste are usually effectively sterile, and reproduction is monopolized by the queen caste. |
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Indian soldiers were only too happy to go to war on behalf of the Empire, even though, for Hindus, crossing the dark ocean meant losing caste. |
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The ideological framework of colonial Spanish America's caste system is familiar. |
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The weak character of the empire came from the rigid caste system that divided people and created unstable feelings among them. |
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Especially not a country like India, which must come to terms both with its multiculturalism and its caste and religious mix. |
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Termites have a strict caste system, which consists of worker termites, soldiers, winged reproductive termites, a queen termite, and a king termite. |
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We deeply feel the heart-touching good wishes of the people across the world of all caste, color, and creed. |
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In these cities and their suburbs, there is now a developed class system overlying and in many respects displacing the more traditional caste system. |
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They are bound to start fighting between Dalits and upper caste people. |
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But it also opens outward to offer a sharp look at the fatal codes of honor dominating the austro-hungarian military caste system. |
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After all, caste is the most resistant feature of our politics, so why not just make it the basis for states formation? |
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It is imperative for any development-oriented publication to cover thoughts from all sections cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste or creed. |
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They co-exist peacefully with people of other castes and tribes that include the Yeravas, Kurubas, the aborigines called Kudiyas, the lower caste called Poleyas. |
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Married off at 11 and repeatedly abused by her husband, she fought against the officially outlawed caste system, becoming a folk hero to many and a menace to others. |
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The Trust aims to educate the children of poor widows throughout India, irrespective of religion, caste and gender, and raise the issues surrounding widowhood globally. |
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They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite. |
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Degrees of difference within the caste hierarchy were also marked by forms of address, seating arrangements, and other practices of deference and superiority. |
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In a society where arranged marriage is the norm, and deployed by families to maintain divisions of class and caste, romantic love is potentially highly transgressive. |
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On the other hand, politicians have been markedly reluctant to reduce pluralism in office holding, which is largely responsible for establishing them as a caste. |
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Hindus take on a caste identity at birth, being born into a family within a particular jati, as the argument goes, because of actions in a previous life. |
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From the dissolution of feudal ties emerge squabbling subjects nursing secret grievances, haughtily guarding caste privileges, or jealously policing petty distinctions. |
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The need then for an alternate development model that was pro-poor, pro-women and anti-caste was urgent as caste and feudal values inhibited the process of development. |
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If no one accuses me of saying that we're living in a caste system or rigid class society I promise not to ask anyone to defend our society as a pure meritocracy. |
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One prime factor of the failure of the Indian working class movement was that upper caste bourgeoisie who never wanted to change the basic social frame mostly led it. |
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Historically, the society was divided along caste and color lines. |
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The more pressing question, in fact, seems to be not whether, but how certain interracial spaces managed to survive within the racial caste system. |
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To do otherwise is to lock our society into a type of caste system. |
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation. |
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It was resolved to launch a national campaign for the abolition of both the caste system and dowry because together they tended to reinforce the system of caste endogamy. |
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But the name Cohen is reserved for the priestly caste descended directly from the biblical Aaron. |
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Yet, they insist, they are performers by birth and caste, not by choice. |
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This was an advancement aided substantially by the often sizeable retirement bonus with which nervous emperors made further attempts to keep the military caste onside. |
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Gowri bemoans of her action of coming into physical contact with Gange, a lower caste woman, and decides to purify herself by taking bath in holy water. |
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Each ant colony without exception complies strictly with the caste system. |
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This loosened the existing caste rigidities to a great extent. |
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Nor does the structure admit individual improvement of caste, as a palliative measure, though the possibility of change of an entire caste is apparently recognized. |
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The poet, in his speech that was peppered with quotes from ancient literary texts, demonstrated how the element of caste remained strong, perhaps stronger in our roots. |
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This kind of caste system is also found among the Yoruba and the Ibibios. |
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Kshatriyas, the ruling class, and the priestly class of Brahmins began to exert pressure on the society and the caste system became more systematized. |
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The applicant is a citizen of India and a high caste Hindu Brahmin. |
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Today volunteerism had been diluted by caste, religion and nepotism. |
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And the same people are led to believe Muslims have no caste distinction. |
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Each caste was propagandized to think of themselves as the lucky ones. |
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Thus, a caste is endogamous, but all the kin-based units below it are exogamous and follow rigid rules about which clans or lineages are allowed to inter-marry. |
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The rebels attack remote western provinces whose local governments are riddled with corruption, inefficiency and the effects of a cruel caste system. |
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The party believes that Indian nationhood stems from a deep cultural bonding of the people which overrides differences of caste, region, religion and language. |
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In India, the great 12 th-century poet-mystic Basava, who rebelled against ritualistic and superstitious temple worship and caste system, was a critical insider. |
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Traditionally there are four castes in the Hindu religion, the fifth section of society being the untouchables, so lowly they are considered outside the caste system. |
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Rather, untouchables are outcastes placed below the sudra caste. |
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The direct evidence is that these low caste and untouchables performed exactly the same ceremony, of dipping in the holy waters, as any Brahmin or Hindu sage. |
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The main raw material that is a compound of polyester resin mixed with calcium carbonate is caste in silicone rubber which helps in giving it an unyielding structure. |
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The shared notion of caste honour by which they had conciliated the nobility eventually proved a fatal stumbling-block to any reasonable scheme of cooperative reform. |
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As the syllabus states, Indian cinema has been an important site for the articulation of ideas about nation, class, caste, gender and sexuality, community, and diaspora. |
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Initially they came first in the developing varna or caste system that the Aryans used to classify their society between priests, warriors, and free peasants or traders. |
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When one caste gains too much power, it brings its own brand of disaster. |
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For Tamil-speaking Vaishnavas, the verses of the 12 saints known asentire tiruman or Vaishnava caste mark that only men wear. |
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Siddaramaiah is a five-time MLA from Varuna in south Karnataka, and belongs to the Kuruba community, a backward caste. |
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They have retained their Tamil language and dialects as well as caste rituals. |
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This species is polygynous, meaning each colony contains many queens, leading to unique caste interactions and colony dynamics. |
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With Mexican and Central American independence, the caste system and slavery were theoretically abolished. |
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The upper, but gradated, caste are the whites, Boer, English, German, Irish. |
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This antling was, as indeed all the larvae and cocoons appeared to be, of the dwarf caste. |
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Intermarriage between the castes was forbidden by the Lex, and wergilds were set based upon caste membership. |
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Though much of the highest caste converted readily, forced baptisms and forced tithing made enemies of the lower orders. |
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He fought the Battle of Shubra Khit against the Mamluks, Egypt's ruling military caste. |
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And various contemporary scholars have argued that the caste system was constructed by the British colonial regime. |
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The bhiksu is advised to not bother about the caste of the family from which he begs his food. |
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Gurdwaras are open to all, regardless of religion, background, caste, or race. |
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During this time, the distinction between kingship and godhood had not yet occurred, as the caste system had not yet been introduced. |
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They remained tied to the strictures of their religion, caste, and customs, but now with an overlay of British Victorian attitudes. |
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Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. |
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The Indian caste system embodies much of the social stratification and many of the social restrictions found in the Indian subcontinent. |
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Eventually a caste system was created to describe the various mixes and to assign them a different social level. |
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She compares mass incarceration to Jim Crow laws, stating that both work as racial caste systems. |
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The caste system in India is a system of social stratification, which is now also used as a basis for affirmative action. |
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Parasitic flies influence foraging rhythms and caste division-of-labor in the leaf-cutter ant, Atta cephalotes. |
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He advocated dismantling the system of caste in Hindu culture, and reconversion of the converted Hindus back to Hindu religion. |
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The caste system is most commonly still employed in rural Punjabi villages. |
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At some places people say that they do not want low caste Hindus and Muslims to sing Kirtans. |
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Several castes have their own sociolects which most members of that caste traditionally used regardless of where they come from. |
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Sikh teaching emphasizes the principle of equality of all humans and rejects discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, and gender. |
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Maal was encouraged to study music as a youth, but Senegal's caste system demanded that only members of griot families could become performers. |
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But Rekha, who is the most Americanized of Das's three daughters, married a man outside her father's caste whom she met in school. |
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The Indian caste system made it very difficult for individuals to advance in the society beyond their caste. |
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It focuses on the colonial era before 1947 and typically emphasises caste and downplays class, to the annoyance of the Marxist school. |
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A person's estate and position within it were usually inherited from the father and his occupation, similar to a caste within that system. |
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This movement questioned existing orthodoxies, particularly with respect to women, marriage, the dowry system, the caste system, and religion. |
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Max Mullar rightly remarked that caste cannot be abolished in India and any attempt to abolish it would be one of the most hazardous operations. |
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It carries out actions against Dalits and other members of the scheduled caste community as well as the Naxalites. |
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Due to the racial caste system instituted in colonial Haiti, Haitian mulattoes became the nation's social elite and racially privileged. |
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It is often possible to identify a person's caste by their speech. |
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And to cap it all, both his family and hers had good songbun, which made their position in society secure. Songbun is a caste system that operates in North Korea. |
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In a system which practises endogamy, allowing young people to marry each other of their own will is a recipe for the caste order being turned upside down. |
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Ambedkar, who held Manusmriti as responsible for caste system in India. |
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At the workplace in urban India and in international or leading Indian companies, the caste related identification has pretty much lost its importance. |
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The caste system consequently began to show regional differences. |
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India's agrarian system is based on large wealthy landholders and unlanded peasants, formerly of the lower caste, who are alienated from the current economic structure. |
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If the new government revokes Manjhi's decision, he might antagonise the members of the Dusadh caste, which is most dominant of all scheduled castes in Bihar. |
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The Code of Manu also sanctioned dowry and bridewealth in ancient India, but dowry was the more prestigious form and associated with the Brahmanic caste. |
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From the 19th century onwards, sources appeared in South India regarding a legendary origin for caste of toddy drawers known as Eelavar in the state of Kerala. |
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When will they realise that the notion that you can find a good match for your progeny by considering candidates' biodata and their caste and religion is deeply flawed? |
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As the flow of indentured laborers to the colony decreased with improving economic conditions in England, more slaves were imported for labor and the caste lines hardened. |
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Scholars like Adi Sankara affirm that not only is Brahman beyond all varnas, the man who is identified with Him also transcends the distinctions and limitations of caste. |
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The phenomena of behavioral specialization, polymorphism and caste formation is well known for some organisms, such as social insects and naked mole rats. |
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All such figures were probably selected from a caste of nobility. |
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A SUPREME Court Constitution bench is likely to clear the air over the rights of migrant schedule caste people to reservations outside their home states. |
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The enrollment in 1936 of Rajabullamma, a widow of the Shudra caste, illustrates how women of caste background abandoned their homes to join the seminary. |
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Problematic and potentially castifying consequences of the caste typology in cultural ecology are discussed and compared to classification practices in disability services. |
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Other Sikh Gurus also denounced the hierarchy of the caste system. |
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The first was over whether low-caste Karavas were in fact ksatriyas and therefore of higher caste than the high-caste Goyigamas, who were vaisyas. |
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The transformation of the social status of Africans, from indentured servitude to slaves in a racial caste which they could not leave or escape, happened gradually. |
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Although the Sikh Gurus and Sikh religious teachings criticize the hierarchy of the caste system, the caste system is still present in some Sikh communities. |
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Gradually, the term Maratha came to denote an endogamous caste. |
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The latter stated that while caste discrimination was harmful to spiritual and national growth, it had nothing to do with Hinduism and its texts such as Manusmriti. |
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Caste was invented by the Hindu Brahmin or priestly group some 2,000 years ago. |
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Caste has ruined the Hindu race and has destroyed, demoralised and devitalised Hindu society. |
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Caste was not the basis for any exclusion of participation in the political process. |
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In the nineteenth century, the enclave supplied guns to the rebellious Maya in the Caste War of Yucatan. |
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