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Example sentences for: castes
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Compilers of our dictionaries should stop capitalizing the words for the four Hindu castes and retain the custom only for Brahma or Brahman when it implies the Absolute.
Just as rape and other felonies committed by star athletes at the NCAA powerhouses are tolerated with wearying predictability, today's high-school administrator will allow the barely controllable gangs from the gridiron free rein to commit verbal and physical aggro upon the castes below.
The human castes came from Purusa, too: His arms became the warrior, his legs the commoner, and his feet the serf.
Then came upper-caste converts from Hinduism, the “clean” castes of both merchants and artisans, and then the “unclean” occupations of scavengers.
In the spirit of his grandfather and mother, Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress party sought to improve the lot of the lower castes and minorities while modernizing India.