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[5] [6] Over time, the system became increasingly rigid, and the emergence of jati led to further entrenchment, introducing thousands of new castes and sub-castes. [7] With the arrival of Islamic rule, caste distinctions formulated in Muslim communities, across the subcontinent, as well.
The other castes were similarly further sub-classified by 19th-century and early-20th-century ethnographers based on numerous criteria ranging from profession, endogamy or exogamy or polygamy, and a host of other factors in a manner similar to castas in Spanish colonies such as Mexico, and caste system studies in British colonies such as India.
Patidar (Gujarati: Pāṭīdār [1]), formerly known as Kanbi (Gujarati: Kaṇabī [2]), is an Indian land-owning and peasant caste and community native to Gujarat.The community comprises at multiple subcastes, most prominently the Levas and Kadvas.
Sadar Lingayats ( ಸಾದರ ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ), is a sub-caste of Lingayatism, the community that inhabit Central Karnataka region of the Karnataka state in India.The community, also called as ʼʼSadaruʼʼ or ʼʼSadaru Okkaligasʼʼ, is a Cultivating caste and were once acted as a native militia and were into trading of grains. [1]
In India, anthropologists now more often speak of 'sub-castes' or Jatis, as the building blocks of society [rather than castes]. However, unless there is a strong element of political control or territoriality associated with such groups these too tend to disintegrate upon closer inspection as soon as essentially exogamous practices such as ...
Saraswats Brahmins are classified under the Pancha Gauda Brahmin classification of the Brahmin community in India. [3]In Western and South India, along with the Chitpavan, Karhades (including Padhyes, Bhatt Prabhus), and Konkani-speaking Saraswat Brahmins are referred to as Konkani Brahmins, which denotes those Brahmin sub-castes of the Konkan coast which have a regional significance in ...
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Historically, widow remarriage was uncommon among the ritually upper castes in Maharashtra i.e. Marathi speaking brahmins, CKPs and Saraswat unlike among some others castes. [43] Like most other Hindu communities, Marathi brahmins have a shrine called a devghar in their house with idols, symbols, and pictures of various deities. [44]