“As he is from the same caste as Niharika, her father agrees to give him her hand in marriage.”

“Most are from among the Untouchables in the now outlawed caste system, and regard it as their duty to pay off their parents' debts.”

“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.”

“The conference also provides a platform for highlighting casteism as a form of invidious discrimination and an international human rights violation.”

“In this regard, Gandhi's paean to the village was spot-on. Nor, casteism aside, is there much crime in the village.”

“Caste and casteism have been carried to every corner of the globe to which the Indian diaspora migrated.”

“Despite the abolition of the zamindari system, this region seems to have stood still in time, at least for some castes.”

“There are no castes and only recent evidence of the slow emergence of classes.”

“Class stratification is also at work as those in the highest castes follow the strictest vegetarian diet.”