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  2. Caste system in India - Wikipedia

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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." [333] 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 ...

  3. Caste - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Casta - Wikipedia

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    The caste system for these historians would have been misconstrued as being analogous to the castes of India. ... Long lists of different terms found in casta ...

  5. Caste systems in Africa - Wikipedia

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    These caste systems feature endogamy, hierarchical status, inherited occupation, membership by birth, pollution concepts and restraints on commensality. [2] The specifics of the caste systems in Africa vary among the ethnic groups. Some societies have a rigid and strict caste system with embedded slavery, whereas others are more diffuse and ...

  6. Category:Caste system by country - Wikipedia

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    Caste system in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 00:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  7. Caste system among South Asian Muslims - Wikipedia

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    According to M. N. Srinivas (1986) and R. K. Bhattacharya, Indian Hindu converts to Islam brought their caste system to the region's Muslim society. [12] Louis Dumont, however, believed that the Islamic conquerors adopted the Hindu caste system "as a compromise which they had to make in a predominantly Hindu environment." [13]

  8. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Wikipedia

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    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House.The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.

  9. Caste system in Kerala - Wikipedia

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    But the movement for change is not a struggle to end caste; it is to use caste as an instrument for social change. Caste is not disappearing, nor is "casteism" - the political use of caste — for what is emerging in India is a social and political system which institutionalizes and transforms but does not abolish caste. [39]