noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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high
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The higher castes often attempted, though not always successfully, to create their own cordonsanitaire about them when travelling.
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Temporal and spiritual power was divided between the two highest castes .
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The Brahmins or priests, members of the highest caste , personified purity, sanctity and holiness.
low
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They could never be of lower caste than herself and the principle of lineage exogamy applied.
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The Kutchi Rabaris, for example, being a slightly lower sub caste of his own caste, aroused his disapproval.
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He molested her for 72 hours before he was shot dead by his lower-caste subordinate, Vikram Mallah.
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Mehta warmed to the one historian he met who did not consider journalists a lower caste .
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The largest of the lower castes was the Vahumpura, which numbered perhaps six percent of the Sinhalese population.
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They were incensed that some one from the lower caste should have become leader of their gang.
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She married, converted to a form of Buddhism and entered politics, forming a new party for the lower castes .
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In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen.
upper
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They blew up trains, ransacked upper-caste homes and carried out a series of kidnappings and murders.
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Some texts heighten irrational thinking and glorify upper-caste Hindu symbols.
■ NOUN
system
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By 1872 the old caste system had been abolished.
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He fails to persuade Hindus to repudiate the divisive and unjust social caste system .
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Thus, the development of democracy has altered but not displaced traditional identities based on the caste system and religious divisions.
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The worst aspect of Hinduism is undoubtedly the caste system , which kept the population cooped up in so many separate compartments.
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They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities.
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Basically, it consists of: Traditional caste systems in which roles are assigned at birth and enforced by social sanctions.
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In the caste system social closure is achieved through prohibitions which prevent members of a caste from marrying outside their caste.
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I abhor smugness, passivity, caste system . write with recent photo.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Buddha was a social reformer who condemned India's caste system.
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In the south of India there are up to 20 different castes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death.
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The money was not distributed fairly, but too often financed artificial luxury on the part of a particular caste .
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They show remarkable adaptations, from the migrations of birds to the slave-making castes of ants.
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This Army caste is oppressing us greatly.
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Though caste often performed this stabilizing economic function, its origin was political and its sanction religious.
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We are a very strong caste , a gypsy caste.
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Women from the Chosa caste would only accept a cook from their caste and above.