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The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, ...
Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.
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 ...
Caste and Race in India (Fifth ed.). Popular Prakashan. ISBN 9788171542055. OCLC 1066815345. Hiltebeitel, Alf (2011). Dharma: Its early history in law, religion, and narrative. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539423-8. Olivelle, Patrick (1998). "Caste and Purity: A Study in the Language of the Dharma Literature". Contributions to Indian ...
The evolution of the lower caste and tribe into the modern-day Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe is complex. The caste system as a stratification of classes in India originated about 2,000 years ago, and has been influenced by dynasties and ruling elites, including the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
History of India by caste (4 C, 2 P) Lists of Indian people by community (30 P) A. Agrawal (1 C, 6 P) Ahir (2 C, 27 P) Ahluwalia (1 C, 7 P) ... Pages in category ...
The devotees rushed to collect soil from the ground the man had just walked on, thousands thronging to the front of a venue densely crammed with a quarter of a million people, under stifling heat.
Films about the caste system in India (4 C, 180 P) G. Gotras (3 C, 17 P) L. Indian caste leaders (9 P) Indian caste legislation (5 P) M.