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As the practice of slavery grew, so did the caste system. Tamari suggests that a corollary of the rising slavery system was the development and growth of the caste system among numerous ethnic groups of Africa by about the 13th century. [5] [4] McIntosh concurs with Tamari's reasoning approach, but disagrees with the dating.
Abha Saxena, the Coordinator of the Global Health Ethics Unit of the WHO in Geneva; Abhishek Saxena, Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director; Anuraag Saxena, Indian activist, commentator and founder of the India Pride Project; Anuj Saxena (born 1967), Indian producer; Arvind Saxena (born 1955), Indian chairman of the Union Public Service ...
Pages in category "Caste system by country" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Balinese caste ...
Mandé-influenced caste systems, and elements thereof, sometimes spread, due to Mande influences, to non-Mandé-speaking ethnic groups (in and near regions where Mande cultures settled) and were adopted by certain non-Mande peoples of Senegal, parts of Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, and elsewhere the Western Sudan and Western Sahel regions of ...
The Nepali caste system resembles in some respects the Indian jāti system, with numerous jāti divisions with a varna system superimposed. Inscriptions attest the beginnings of a caste system during the Licchavi period. Jayasthiti Malla (1382–1395) categorised Newars into 64 castes (Gellner 2001). A similar exercise was made during the reign ...
In Kerala, surnames denote the caste they belong. There are also several local surnames like Nair , [ 10 ] Menon , Panikkar etc. It is a common in Kerala , Tamil Nadu , and some other parts of South India that the spouse adopts her husband's first name instead of his family or surname name after marriage.
Genealogies of the Rajput clans were fabricated by pastoral nomadic tribes when they became sedentary. In a process called Rajputization, after acquiring political power, they employed bards to fabricate these lineages which also disassociated them from their original ancestry of cattle-herding or cattle-rustling communities and acquired the name 'Rajput'.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.