A caste system resting on soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and officers mirrored a civilian stratification of workers, foremen, and managers. |
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The original caste system was based on self-discipline through education and through personal sadhana. |
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By himself becoming a Hindu and a sannyasin, he has challenged the obnoxious caste system. |
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Even though Manipuris are Hindu, the Indian caste system is not the basis of social stratification. |
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Religious-mystical theories, biological theories and socio-historical theories explain the existence of the caste system. |
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The Samoans are considered by many of the earlier arrivers to Hawaii to be the unwashed, much like the caste system in India. |
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A Vaishnava in his early life, he became a worshipper of brahm and condemned the caste system. |
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The ideological framework of colonial Spanish America's caste system is familiar. |
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The weak character of the empire came from the rigid caste system that divided people and created unstable feelings among them. |
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This is a strange kind of caste system and women find it very hard to break. |
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He added that the deeply entrenched caste system meant it was almost impossible for people of lower castes to assume any position of power. |
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The caste system reflects Indian historical occupation and religiously defined hierarchies. |
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But there was precious little serious reporting on just what precisely is entailed in our economic caste system of haves and have-nots. |
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While Bhutan has no caste system, a pattern of discrimination against the minority Hindus of Nepalese origin exists. |
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In practice, the inherited distinction between rural and urban residents produces a deeply entrenched caste system. |
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The caste system was obliterated legally, with one stroke of the pen, the day free India was born. |
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Most are from among the Untouchables in the now outlawed caste system, and regard it as their duty to pay off their parents' debts. |
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No human community ever existed in the past, nor does it exist now which does not have caste system in one form or the other. |
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The caste system is the most misunderstood, the most vilified subject of Hindu society. |
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For example a common myth is that caste system and untouchability is fundamental to Hinduism. |
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Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. |
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The caste system was envisaged as the expression and codification of the social and ethnic realities inherent in all societies. |
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The latter believed in caste system and untouchability, polytheism, idolatry, etc. |
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation. |
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Termites have a strict caste system, which consists of worker termites, soldiers, winged reproductive termites, a queen termite, and a king termite. |
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It was resolved to launch a national campaign for the abolition of both the caste system and dowry because together they tended to reinforce the system of caste endogamy. |
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The more pressing question, in fact, seems to be not whether, but how certain interracial spaces managed to survive within the racial caste system. |
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Initially they came first in the developing varna or caste system that the Aryans used to classify their society between priests, warriors, and free peasants or traders. |
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Each ant colony without exception complies strictly with the caste system. |
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In India, the great 12 th-century poet-mystic Basava, who rebelled against ritualistic and superstitious temple worship and caste system, was a critical insider. |
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But it also opens outward to offer a sharp look at the fatal codes of honor dominating the austro-hungarian military caste system. |
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Married off at 11 and repeatedly abused by her husband, she fought against the officially outlawed caste system, becoming a folk hero to many and a menace to others. |
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The rebels attack remote western provinces whose local governments are riddled with corruption, inefficiency and the effects of a cruel caste system. |
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This kind of caste system is also found among the Yoruba and the Ibibios. |
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If no one accuses me of saying that we're living in a caste system or rigid class society I promise not to ask anyone to defend our society as a pure meritocracy. |
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Traditionally there are four castes in the Hindu religion, the fifth section of society being the untouchables, so lowly they are considered outside the caste system. |
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To do otherwise is to lock our society into a type of caste system. |
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Kshatriyas, the ruling class, and the priestly class of Brahmins began to exert pressure on the society and the caste system became more systematized. |
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In these cities and their suburbs, there is now a developed class system overlying and in many respects displacing the more traditional caste system. |
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The caste system in India is a system of social stratification, which is now also used as a basis for affirmative action. |
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Maal was encouraged to study music as a youth, but Senegal's caste system demanded that only members of griot families could become performers. |
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The caste system is most commonly still employed in rural Punjabi villages. |
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During this time, the distinction between kingship and godhood had not yet occurred, as the caste system had not yet been introduced. |
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The Indian caste system embodies much of the social stratification and many of the social restrictions found in the Indian subcontinent. |
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Due to the racial caste system instituted in colonial Haiti, Haitian mulattoes became the nation's social elite and racially privileged. |
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Eventually a caste system was created to describe the various mixes and to assign them a different social level. |
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With Mexican and Central American independence, the caste system and slavery were theoretically abolished. |
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This movement questioned existing orthodoxies, particularly with respect to women, marriage, the dowry system, the caste system, and religion. |
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The Indian caste system made it very difficult for individuals to advance in the society beyond their caste. |
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And various contemporary scholars have argued that the caste system was constructed by the British colonial regime. |
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Ambedkar, who held Manusmriti as responsible for caste system in India. |
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Although the Sikh Gurus and Sikh religious teachings criticize the hierarchy of the caste system, the caste system is still present in some Sikh communities. |
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Other Sikh Gurus also denounced the hierarchy of the caste system. |
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The caste system consequently began to show regional differences. |
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And to cap it all, both his family and hers had good songbun, which made their position in society secure. Songbun is a caste system that operates in North Korea. |
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