subcaste
Americannoun
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In truth, the Indian subcaste system was quite complex.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In the Indian caste system, an infinitely more elaborate hierarchy, the subcaste, or jati, to which a person was born established the occupation their family fulfilled, from cleaners of latrines to priests in the temples.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
Epigeneticists, once a subcaste of biologist nudged to the far peripheries of the discipline, now find themselves firmly at its epicenter.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
By the time the fathers discovered that their families were of the same gotra, or subcaste, generally making marriage taboo, their children had texted and emailed enough that they were hooked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2015
No subcaste can be markedly distinguished from the others in respect of occupation or social status, and none apparently can therefore be classified as a separate caste.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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