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The Caste system does not demarcate racial division. The Caste system is a social division of people of the same race." [336] Various sociologists, anthropologists and historians have rejected the racial origins and racial emphasis of caste and consider the idea to be one that has purely political and economic undertones. Beteille writes that ...
Rome in the East: The transformation of an empire. Routledge. London and New York. ISBN 0-415-11376-8. Begley, Vimala and de Puma, Richard Daniel (eds). (1991). Rome and India: The Ancient Sea Trade. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-12640-4. Carey, M. (1954). A History of Rome down to the reign of Constantine. 1st edition 1935,. 2nd ...
Kshatriya (Sanskrit: क्षत्रिय, romanized: Kṣatriya) (from Sanskrit kṣatra, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) [1] is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy. [2]
Sūta (Sanskrit: सूत) refers both to the bards of Hindu Puranic stories and to a mixed caste. According to Manu Smriti (10.11.17), the sūta caste are children of a Kshatriya father and a Brahmin mother. And the narrator of several of the Puranas, Ugrasrava Sauti, son of Romaharshana, was also called Sūta. Authorities are divided on ...
The Hindu caste system is structured around two key concepts through which members of society are categorized, varṇa (वर्ण) and jāti (जाति).Jati refers to countless endogamous groups defined by occupation, social status, shared ancestry, and locality, while varna divides society into a hierarchy of (usually four) broad social classes.
This is supported by the Romani word for 'cross', trushul, which is the word which describes Shiva's trident and additionally folk tales and songs about Hindu-esque deities. [50] [51] A Hindu foundation means that the concept of Kuntari, a universal balance, is central to the people's spirituality.
The community claims to be descended from the god Vishvakarma, who is considered by Hindus to be the divine architect or engineer of the universe.He had five children — Manu, Maya, Tvastar, Shilpi and Visvajna — and these are believed by the Vishwakarma community to have been the forebears of their five subgroups, being respectively the gotras (clans) of blacksmiths, carpenters, bell ...
Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha, also referred to as North-Indian Kayastha, is a subgroup of Hindus of the Kayastha community that are mainly concentrated in the Hindi Belt of North India. In Hindu texts and traditions, they are described to have descended from the Hindu god Chitragupta [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] who is usually depicted carrying "a flowing ...