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But the caste system is very deeply rooted, said Gidion Mbilijora, who was the "bupati" or head of the East Sumba district for 13 years, and who owns two atas himself.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Between 1918 and his assassination in 1948, Gandhi fasted repeatedly - against religious violence, caste discrimination and political discord - turning the empty plate into one of the defining symbols of India's freedom struggle.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

At independence, India adopted a modest 12.5% quota for the “scheduled castes,” or Dalits, widely acknowledged as the most-disadvantaged victims of caste discrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

These travelers were commonly referred to as “Indios chinos” in the colonial caste structure, though historians say the majority were Filipino.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Hari’s baap, like mine, was a Brahman, the highest Hindu caste, and he was a schoolteacher.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

By some estimates, the vast majority of India’s 1.5 billion people are divided into more than 3,000 castes and 25,000 subcastes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Proteins, of course; RNA acts as the major-domo, a bridge between the castes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging, defense and care of maternal brood.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

They had very different visions, one of an agrarian caste nation and the other an industrial power based on class, theoretically open to all races or castes.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024

In the district about Ahmedabad the lower castes do not forbid second marriages, and these are less expensive than the first.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers