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Critics say that such statements are simply meant to garner votes from lower castes and that any gains made by Dalits have been marginal.

These larger colonies consist mostly of sterile wingless females forming castes of "workers" , "soldiers" , or other specialised groups.

At the same immature stage, SCPs of various castes did not differ from each other.

His children, two sons and a daughter, were educated at the same private school as the upper castes from the village.

It is said to have some 400. 000 followers, but Sikhs and members of Hindu majority, mainly among the poor, illiterate, and lower castes.

In sociology, social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes and strata within a society.

The political ascent of the "lower castes" is India's equivalent of the rise of the Irish in the American Gilded Age.

Officials also commandeered private boats in an effort to prevent richer and higher castes from monopolizing the vessels.

Besides the four main varna, or castes, India has uncounted thousands of sub-castes, few of which census officials will recognise.

The results indicated that the SCPs of fire ants differed significantly among castes and developmental stages.

Honey bees have three castes for the division of labour in a hive: queens, workers and drones.

A woman from the Dalit or formerly Untouchable castes , she is admired for her courage and persistence but also feared for her vengefulness.

Yuuzhan Vong organize themselves into castes, strictly defined segments of society complete with distinct religious and social mandates.

So-called scheduled castes and tribes are more likely than other Indians to suffer the ills of poor diet.

It did so by more than doubling the quota of jobs and seats in government colleges reserved for disadvantaged castes.

The highly specialized worker castes in ants represent the pinnacle of social organization in the insect world.

Further development of librarianship, then, presupposes the dissolution of library castes .

Density and distributional patterns of seed harvester ant Messor aciculatus and the seasonal moving behavior of castes in natural nest .

Cultural differences blur in [India's film production] industry. . . which is open to all castes and religions.

"Even if we try to live like normal people, " she says, "the [Hindu] upper-castes will never accept us. "

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

The most exclusive of Yuuzhan Vong castes has only a membership of one: the Supreme Overlord.

The largest yet lowliest of the Yuuzhan Vong castes are the workers.

The Maoists want to push through land reform, emancipate the lower castes and seek foreign investment.

Also the castes were an important factor influencing the division of labour.

By virtue of birth, some castes inherit wealth; the Dalits inherit debt.

Tamil mores prohibit sex between people who are not married and sex across castes (though they are less bothered about marital rape).

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

Thethird trajectory, "field to factory" , is the transition into the business world of members of India'smiddle and lower-peasant castes.

Soldiers and workers are non-reproductive castes in the termite, Reticulitermes aculabialis Tsai et Hwang.

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

an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites.

They are illiterate women from India's Untouchable castes.

Across India's estimated 6, 400 sub-castes, the system came to define a person's socioeconomic status.

There are generally there castes of ants. queens, males and workers.

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

There are many castes in India, the highest being the Brahmin (intellectual).

a social system or the principle of grading society based on castes .

Development and differentiation of various castes in the immature stage of Reticuli-termes chinensis

Scheduled castes or scheduled tribes ;