caste system

[kast sis-tuhm, kahst]

noun

1. the rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of caste system¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Yet in a provocative new book, The Caste Con Census, scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde warns that the exercise may harden the deeply discriminatory caste system, when the need is to dismantle it.

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There a medieval caste system has bred, not surprisingly, rebellion and the suspicion that all is not what it seems above ground.

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Throughout his career, he fought to reform Hindu laws of the time on marriage and women's rights and to abolish the caste system.

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People would point out that the Nazis were inspired by the racial caste system in the United States and of course, as you well know, we have a long tradition in this country of reaction.

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Those demands must also frame the struggle in the clear language that Donald Trump’s attempts to reconstitute the racial caste system are wrong.

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