Definition of Caste

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Definition of Caste

Caste

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

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Caste Quotations

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Guru Nanak

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

There is no caste in blood.
Edwin Arnold

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
Juan Goytisolo

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
John Marshall Harlan

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.
Francois Gautier

Caste Translations

caste in French is caste
caste in German is Kaste
caste in Hungarian is kaszt
caste in Italian is casta
caste in Spanish is casta

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