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Poverty is often both cause and consequence of norms and discrimination that build on race, caste or gender.

So, what each one of us can do is to be non-communal: We can cease to be Brahmins, cease to belong to any caste or to any country.

The Warrior Caste sent men to patrol the road, and thought the matter settled.

Rao also warns the caste census may be just as vulnerable to corruption as the rest of the Indian political system.

And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariah's house with his long and neglected hair.

The ancient caste system was the most obvious symbol of this idea. But it had many subtler expressions, too.

Caste politicians are not alone in arguing that this makes a nonsense of the system.

On the rise is a legion of regional and caste-based parties that do not even pretend to be guided by the national interest.

Dalits, who were formerly known as Untouchables because of their low caste status, are sometimes referred to abusively as chuhra and chamar.

At the bottom of this caste system, as before, are the shareholders, who get any leftovers.

To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification.

With its caste system, and bad state schools, India may be a more unequal society than the numbers alone suggest.

Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.

Stopping to chat, he said: "All the village is with me, caste is unimportant! "

There is at least a small risk, however, that some in Russia 's ruling caste might feel uneasy about the shenanigans.

The best answer would be where the candidate is unaware of his or her caste.

The caste system is one where one's parentage determines one's place in society.

But the word 'caste' is routinely used by government experts to refer to social strata in underprivileged Muslim communities.

This highly skilled member of the Intendent caste has bioengineering talents that rival the skilled Shapers of his people.

It is widely believed that this reflects a choice of competence over caste and secularism over sect.

Girls from the Madiga caste otherwise known as the "untouchable caste " have really limited prospects.

If such a person is calmly resigned to his fate and lives rightly, he will be elevated in caste in his next life.

Viewed from Delhi, India's capital, caste-based parties like the BSP are more or less deplorable.

The direct descendants of his Malva-caste soldiers are also developing a reputation for organisational excellence.

The concept of social mobility is starting to challenge a previously fatalistic attitude to class and caste.

Gao is part of a privileged " native " villager caste which has cornered rents from factories and their migrant workforces .

It's certainly a vast improvement over a country in which millions were oppressed for being born into the wrong caste or gender or family.

Many candidates seek votes through beggar-thy-neighbor appeals to the self-interest of a particular linguistic, caste or religious group.

Everywhere in Europe I encountered theliving facts of medieval caste and of the static medieval social order.

Although the caste system has a negative impact on Indian society, its long-term existence indicates that it has some positive sense.

The brutal aliens greatly revere combat and pain, thus the warrior caste is believed by many to be the most favored of the gods.

I have no satisfactory explanation for all this, but I think it may have something to do with India's much-reviled caste system.

But China doesn t witness bloodletting in the name of religion or caste, of the sorts you see in India from time to time.

In a patronage-based democracy, where caste represents the prevailing identity, this was inevitable.

There was a separate refreshment room for Bengali boys for meeting their caste requirements.

Born into a lower caste, Poggle bucked the strict societal structure of the Geonosians and aspired to leadership.

Only a few high caste people in india enjoy so called democracy but most low income and low caste people only enjoy dirty poor and anarchy.

Language, religion, and caste are major determinants of social and political organisation within the highly diverse Indian population.

From our very birth we have the eight fetters of hatred, shame, lineage, pride of good conduct, fear, secretiveness , caste, and grief.

Up to half of university places reserved for low-caste students are left vacant.

Even members of the Servant Caste have been elevated to Paragons, usually posthumously, in recognition of remarkable service.

In practice, professional imperialists ruled through a caste system alien to anything seen at home.

Of course if I'd had any sense I'd have married a Malay girl and had half a dozen half-caste kids.

you know the Indian caste system is actually racism. . . diplomatic racism.

It has brought new blood into old elitist institutions, and indeed has thoroughly scrambled the hereditary caste it began with.

For many conservatively minded Britons , the possibility of their family losing caste over generations is an alarming one .

In most cases, a formal education was only available to male children with a sufficiently high status, wealth or caste.

Metal-workers, of the johar caste, are increasingly switching to carpentry, as machine-tooled implements become more common in agriculture.

One of the most commonly reported forms of discrimination is caste-related name-calling.

Last are the slaves, part of no caste; they have no rights under derro society.

Geonosians of lower-caste are often pitted against other Geonosians, other sentients, or savage creatures in immense gladiatorial arenas.

Only a handful of Mining Caste families hazard extracting the ore, finding veins in the Stone quite literally by ear.

and that treat blacks not as an underprivileged caste, but as individuals.

For centuries, caste determined not only peoples' social status but their marriages and occupations as well.

To replace them, governments will have to offer something more than the steady life that attracted the older caste of mandarins.

The bazaar is also home to members of two poorer Muslim groups, who are said to be descended from low-caste former Hindus.

The man, Faillu Bhosle, said they had been attacked by high-caste Marathas while they were cultivating common grazing-land.

The community suffers from as much a caste prejudice as a religious one.

"All ready ? " the captain asked the engineer, a Portuguese half -caste , whose head and shoulders protruded from the small hatch .

At a rural tannery (pictured) a member of the Chamar leatherworking caste softens water buffalo skin.

The reference frame of family status bears the stamp of middle class values, but caste background is not irrelevant totally.

"So you're going to marry Antonia Dennant? " said a voice on his right, with that easy coarseness which is a mark of caste.

Rao, however, cautions that new caste data may open a "Pandora's box" of new jostling among different groups for government handouts.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair were consigned to the fire, completing his severance from caste, sex, and society.

This principal incursion, led mostly by members of the intendant caste, was deemed a failure, and Anor's status was tainted by association.

I couldn't help feeling that she was making fun of high-caste people.

The country may have ousted its monarchy, but it treats its elite as a caste with special privileges.

India' s minorities, constituting approximately 7% of the population, present an alternative to the dominant caste system.

He hoped it would erase the social stigma of his low-caste roots.

Yun-Yammka was worshiped by the warrior caste, and was the one who taught the Yuuzhan Vong the importance of blood sacrifices.

Members of the minority Hindu community let loose in Multan. Distinctions of race, caste, gender and age are suspended during Holi.

TheHindu caste system has never been rigid.

Gemma know the answer is, unfortunately, his mother was killed in religious conflicts, which is India's religious, caste problem.

Counting caste in the census, however, would be difficult, or even impossible.

The hierarchy is based on four broad caste groups (topped by the priestly Brahmins), each divided into thousands of subgroups.

A member of a low caste of agricultural and domestic workers in southern India and Burma.

Most residents of Godown, a huddle of mud and brick huts, are dali, especially chambers and dhobis, of the Hindu washer caste.

But her opponents, sensing a recent shift away from voting by caste in neighbouring Bihar state, are hoping otherwise.

Doctrines of racism, nationalism, caste, social class and gender-based hierarchy are seen as artificial impediments to unity.

As India's economy surges , one of the country's most serious and stubborn challenges is how to combat entrenched caste prejudice.

The case dates back to 1991 when a teenage Dalit boy eloped with his girlfriend who was from a higher caste.

Harsh Mander, a social activist who has surveyed ongoing untouchability, talks of "dismaying" caste divisions.

Caste was the final barrier to industrialization.

Ranks within the priest caste include savants, seers, and high priests and priestesses.

He ignored distinctions of race or caste, and was happy to eat rice from an aluminium plate in the house of an untouchable.

In the Inferno realm, they often as pets for the high-caste of devils, where their taste for fresh blood and flesh is much appreciated.

the dominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system and belief in reincarnation.

The leader of the uprising, inviting PinFei daing palace embodies, enjoyment, has established a caste system to protect the privilege.

But the vast majority of women are divided by caste, class, region, language, religion, even dress, and by illiteracy and poverty.

Caste will also be tallied, in a separate survey.

Among all ethnic and caste groups, the most valuable social unit is the nuclear family - -husband, wife, and unmarried children.

Shahabpur's smaller caste-groups are more intermingled, though discreetly separated by walkways and ditches.

The casual way of pronouncing which followed caste and custom and not the spelling-book had long prevailed in the English of England.

it is a pleasant change that these Maoist MPs truly reflect the class, gender, regional, ethnic, and caste composition of Nepali society.

Members of this clothes-washing caste handle items "polluted" by blood or human waste.

In the Indian state of Bihar the Ranveer Sena, an upper-caste private army, even killed to stay there.

their separation meant that was never a single Brahmanic empire, just kingdoms linked by the Brahmanic hierarchies of caste and ritual.

The Templar caste as a whole, and the zealots in particular, seethe with shame at this dishonor.

Almost half of the respondents (45%) said they had either been treated negatively by co-workers or had comments made about their caste.

Since taking control of Tibet, China has abolished the Indian-based caste system and agricultural serfdom.

This is not always because the inquiries are stitch-ups; caste and unconscious sympathy also contribute.

India's post-independence constitution set a goal of eliminating caste-based discrimination.

The governments of Turkey and India are unhappy about the report's mentions of, respectively, Kurdish girls and low-caste children.

The caste system prevents hundreds of millions of Indians from having their needs and demands heard and acted upon.

Communities developed incentives to maintain their rung on the caste ladder, lest those below pass them.

Caste-based hiring quotas would be just another burden.

As rural Indians become more mobile and less caste-bound, such attitudes are likely to fade.

It is a caste artificial person which strides industry and strides possession system and nonprofit calling nature.

They are one of several marginalized ethnic or caste groups for whom a block of seats has been reserved.

Discrimination by caste, religion, and gender remains pervasive.

Geonosian society exists for the benefit of the few in the upper caste.

A caste census has long been taboo, for fear it would reinforce discrimination.

these pious beggars came from India, and their master belonged to the powerful caste of Brahmans.

More helpfully, they pushed literacy and women's rights, and opposed "untouchability" and the caste system.

The businessman will remain a businessman. Just because he is rich he cannot become a brahmin, he cannot purchase the caste.

Vikram Garg, a PhD student from Mumbai delves into the caste politics in India from an academic standpoint.

Jawaharlal Nehru defined it in three words: village, caste, and family.

They also fear it will benefit educated, high-caste women, who are more likely to stand for Congress or the BJP.

I cannot condemn you because you are a Brahmin or belong to some other blinking caste.

The savants are the members of the derro's highest caste and renowned for their extensive knowledge.

Such economic mobility may weaken their caste identity, as could better education.

The priest caste wields considerable power in this rigidly theocratic society.

Individual obligation with respect to caste, social custom, civil law, and sacred law.

The walls of caste and class have not been razed, but they are suddenly, irrevocably, more porous.

its because low caste austrics and negrito women have been raped by caucasians and become pregnant.

In fact, the final count of such caste-based proliferation could be much higher.

But caste can be fiercely discriminatory.

Over the past decade or so other caste-groups have followed the pass' lead, especially the chairs.

This book treats of the caste system in India.

Both parties say the reservation should be dedicated to low-caste women.

The modern lot almost all belong to a single caste of illiterate dalits.

India has a caste system determined at birth. Interaction between castes is limited.

Lust makes the people and animals in its power shameless, irrespective of age, caste, race, or nationality.

It is the worker caste who performs the menial yet essential tasks of Yuuzhan Vong society, from garbage collectors to personal attendants.

The Chowdulis are Muslim, and therefore outside of the traditional Hindu caste system.

Does this mean that American economic society is hardening along caste lines.

Seemingly trivial, such trends in fact describe a rapid weakening of caste identity, says Mr Prasad.

One day we had a picnic there together, in defiance of caste rules.

Mexico became a counterpoint to the caste society that developed in its northern neighbour.

A View on Indian caste System After the Independence Taken From "New Buddhist Movement"

For example, many village men currently pursue their traditional caste occupation, yet do not expect their sons to follow them.

It's absolutely absurd and silly! It's a hierarchy, just like Indian caste system. It's a shame!

Spaces in India are segregated so that high caste and low caste, males and females, secular and sacred activities are kept apart.

Typically one child, usually a higher-caste male, would dominate the use of the machine.

There are still hundreds of "honour killings" by which families avenge inter-caste marriages and liaisons.

The nobles do not engage directly in commerce themselves, as that is the domain of the Merchant Caste, but they do serve as patrons.

She revitalized a party lacking ideas and in decline, its support splintering into smaller parties based on caste and regional interests.

Finally, there are the lowest castes, the Untouchables , who are unlikely to reveal their caste.

In the past year, 130 people have been killed there in complicated and worsening ethnic and caste-based violence.

'Ultimately the DNA of India is caste, kinship and religion, ' he says.

She retorts, with some justification, that upper-caste Indian leaders, such as the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, have parks and museums aplenty.

It is time for leaders to bury their caste loyalty and anachronistic niceties and buy more talent in.

And since caste also was not an issue, his parents, too, agreed.

India has not counted caste in its census since 1931.

In the distant future, humans will form caste systems based on the rareness of the animals whose poop we eat.

This paper mainly studies a series of effects arising from the caste system impacting on the process of India's modernization.

Another is that public-sector pay and benefits have shot ahead as a cosseted caste extends its privileges.

So, too, are many of the university posts reserved for low-caste teachers.

The fire caste will not fail you .

For any typical clerk marrying a caste girl and seating on seashore?

Low-caste Indians perhaps almost invariably do.

Music had no religion or caste, he often said.

In India lower caste people the ability always low because they have no chance and no confidence.

Caste is a massively complicated issue still in India.

Yet critics say the affirmative-action program promotes inter-caste resentment as India's 1. 2 billion people compete for too few jobs.

In India, there is an association between caste and the idea of pollution.

Their caste system has evolved over millennia.

people highlight their caste when gets chance.

He wrote this in the 1980s, a decade marked by ethnic and caste violence, and bloody religious riots.

Low-caste students struggle in schools without special help, which is rarely available.

Low-caste Dalits, who rallied separately in Delhi on August 24th, also question his stand.

Yet there are many problems. There is grinding poverty as well as caste and communal tensions.

High school is a caste system. Kids fall into certain slots.

Simply avoiding the label doesn't address the caste system that gives rise to the labels in the first place.

There is an exception to the caste divide in Shahabpur, which many Muslim and Hindu men enjoy.

the third of the four main Hindu castes: the mercantile and professional caste.

Shahabpur, a village on the Gangetic plain, is caste-addled and somehow cohesive.

The fire caste serves with pride.

Summary: Could caste politics give way to something more sophisticated?

The danger in using caste as a development tool, critics say, is that the government is perpetuating ancient divisions that still run deep.

India's modernization process will be inevitably affected by the caste system in the future.

Choose which caste you want to belong to for the census.

A system of affirmative action has given caste greater potency.

But low-caste politicians are delighted by theprospect, so it could happen.

Men, especially if poor and from a low caste, suffer too.

a member of the royal or warrior Hindu caste.

Social rank or caste, especially high rank.

The fire caste's best are here to serve.

Our caste-wallah, of course. He comes from our area.

My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side.

The caste refers to social system based on rigid distinctions of birth, rank, wealth, etc.

The answer lies in the old Indian caste system.

since with woman there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth.

The failure of less powerful caste-groups to adapt is more pathetic.

Believe yourself! You will have a bright future! Come on, my Little half-caste Princess!

They live in caste-based ghettos; rarely socialise across caste lines, and never inter-marry.

When it comes to tying the knot, it seems traditional concerns such as caste quickly return to the fore.

'They' are the Musahars, the lowest in the Hindu caste system.

the highest of the four main Hindu castes: the priestly caste.

EG. , Sushma came from a lower caste.

The Aryans formed a caste system in order to maintain the purity of their blood and to maintain white supremacy.

me: I'm so surprised, there are so many sudra people, why did they suffer caste system?

India is also riven by caste and tribal divisions.

Sue : High school is a caste system.

Them call me half-caste or whatever.

I suppose you also have a caste system in your society.

A chair is not a caste.

Caste descrimination has reduced drastically. The future danger for India is the class descrimination.

If a candidate does name a caste, it would probably indicate a mind that is affected by the caste system.

But more importantly for them, he was from a lower caste.

Only Hindus practice the caste system; it is abandoned if a Hindu becomes a Mohammedan or a Christian.

But this year, lower-caste groups forced the government's hand.

According to the study, 10% of those responsible for caste discrimination against under-12s were teachers, and 42% fellow pupils.

Will you reveal your caste when the census-taker comes calling?

India still runs a caste system, with 150 million untouchable people, who is going to guarantee their dignity.

It was a scornful reference to the man's origins in Japan's humblest caste, the grave diggers and slaughterhouse men of medieval times.

She still has much to learn about life beyond her caste, however, and she knows it. . . and she is sure adventuring is the answer.

Caste is not your destiny; it is your vote bank clout.

The caste system although weakened is still prevalent in the society especially among the less educated.

"You can be any caste you like, but if you don't have a mobile phone you are nobody" , he says.

However, their resemblance to the old Caste System is remarkable in spite of the timely changes in the society.

helping the return of Kashmiri Pandits, the region's upper-caste Hindus, and others forced out of Kashmir by violence;

For a few rupees or a handful of rice higher-caste men demand, and get, sex with dalit women

Closely linked with this view is the caste system, which is explained in mythical terms in one of the hymns of the Rigveda

he was , after all , a mere workingman , a member of her own class and caste

Combinations of pollination and technical steps of gaining nice caste seeds in Primula vulgaris

Caste, Foreign Invasion and Plurality of Religion and Culture about India in the Ancient Times and Middle Ages

A Simple Explanation of the Caste System in Sikh Society

The Caste System among the Sinhalese

marrying someone from a superior caste is not allowed. ;

Ministry of Civil requires administration of caste register

Brahman: a Hindu who belongs to the highest caste, in which all the members are priests

none can perish the caste system as long as there will survive the Hinduism

The Caste System of Ancient India and Letting a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend

The Influence of Caste System on Indian Legislation

What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system;

The History of the Caste System in Nepal

Caste ratios of the termite Coptotermes

Dalits and Caste Oppression in India

Hindu and Caste System in India

In the Indian caste system,

A certain group of caste

The Caste System in Nepal

Death or fear I have none, nor any distinction of caste;