Small Castes are not Castes, they are Professions. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British occupied the whole Indian subcontinent. They introduced...

Forward caste (or General caste) is a term used in India to denote castes which are not listed in SC, ST or OBC reservation lists. They are on average...

parts of India. There are 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes in India, each related to a specific occupation. Caste-based differences have also been...

within a caste or among a limited number of castes, yet castes did not form demographic isolates according to Tamari. Social status according to caste was...

discriminate against other castes led all castes to be equally treated by the law. Education is free and open to all castes. The caste system conjoints a structural...

The survey counted the 214 castes on Bihar government list. According to the list, 22 were counted in Scheduled Castes, 32 in Scheduled Tribes, 30 in...

decided by birth. Broadly, Indian castes are divided into the Forward Castes, Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes. Indian Christians...

Anthropology. p. 58, 59. Kavara is one of those castes belonging to the sixty - eight Scheduled Castes of Kerala. They subsist on basket - making and are...

Maharashtra and Telangana with smaller numbers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. They are related to other pastoral-herding castes like Gulla, Gullar (in Karnataka)...

caste is one which preponderates numerically over other castes and also wields preponderant economic and political power. A large and powerful caste group...

upper castes. Due to their association with toddy, the Nadars were considered lower than other middle castes, but relatively higher than the low castes, and...

low. The artisan castes were intermediate in terms of literacy. For all castes, men were more literate than the women from that caste(respectively). Female...

Scheduled Caste (SC) by the Government of India. According to 2001 census data, Malas constituted 41.6 percent (5.39 lakh) of the Scheduled Castes population...

When the British reduced military recruitment from agrarian castes and opted for lower castes in order to have more control over the army, Kapus concentrated...

model) Sakdina, a Thai feudal system Samanta, an Indian feudal system Small castes Zemene Mesafint François Louis Ganshof (1944). Qu'est-ce que la féodalité...

'left-hand' caste division and the Komati and Balija merchants, who were referred to as the 'right-hand' caste division and who also led the right-hand castes. Other...

classifications of the population of India, along with general castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs). The OBCs were found to comprise...

rest of India, the lower castes touching the upper castes was termed as "pollution," but only in Kerala did the lower castes pollute not just by touch...

Holar is a small Marathi community or caste found in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, all states in India. The caste traditionally provides...

traditionally associated with snake charming. Like many other nomadic peripatetic castes, the Bangali claim a Rajput origin. In this new environment, the community...

The Upper Backward Caste is a term used to describe the middle castes in Bihar, whose social and ritual status was not very low and which have traditionally...

represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming...

effects of casteism in India, lending a culturally-specific critique of British colonialism in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997. The God of Small Things...

castes into the politics. The abolition of all intermediaries had definitely helped the hard working castes like Kurmi, Koeris and Yadav. These small...

recent years, along with desires of Sanskritisation and high caste status. STATE WEAVER CASTES Andhra Pradesh ThogataVeera Kshatriya-Salishetty-Padmasha...

Anthropological Survey of India. ISBN 9788173041181. Castes and Tribes of Southern India Edgar Thurston Castes And Tribes Of Southern India Vol.7 (t-z) [1] v...

Valangai ("Right-hand caste faction"). Some of The Valangai comprised castes with an agricultural basis while the Idangai consisted of castes involved in manufacturing...

(or Kallan, formerly spelled as Colleries) is one of the three related castes of southern India which constitute the Mukkulathor confederacy. The Kallar...

has also influenced the caste system, some suggesting even a re-arrangement of the occupational castes. At present 13 castes are commonly found among...

god, or religious doctrines to render people as lowest castes". Periyar argued that the caste system has "perverted peoples ideas about human conduct...