A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and...

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The...

The Maratha caste is composed of 96 clans, originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the peasant (Kunbi), shepherd...

stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. They are also called Harijans. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and...

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

Indian caste historically found in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of north and central India. The caste is traditionally...

spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania and Vanya) is a mercantile caste mainly from the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, with strong diasporic...

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...

lit. 'a man of Dalit caste, living by singing and music'), also known as Domra, Domba, Domaka, Dombara and Dombari, are castes, or groups, scattered...

Warrior caste may refer to; Kshatriya, a member of the military or reigning order, the second-ranking caste of the Indian varna system Samoa's Toa class...

The Nayak are a Hindu caste; also some Nayak are Punjabi found in India and Pakistan. Mainly Nayak follows Hindu. According to Vinay Krishin Gidwani,...

The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. The survey...

Kapu is a Hindu caste primarily found in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Kapus are classified as a Forward caste, and are a community of land-owning...

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

up caste in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caste is a system of social stratification and hierarchy in human societies. It may also refer to: Caste system...

Sutradhar is a caste within the Vishwakarma community of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Their traditional occupation is carpentry. The great majority of...

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. The...

The Udayar is a title used by multiple caste in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. According to Selva Raj, the Udayar are not "socially humbler" than the...

Half-caste is a term used for individuals of multiracial descent. The word caste is borrowed from the Portuguese or Spanish word casta, meaning race....

The Kashyap Rajput or Kashyap are a caste in India. They are sometimes called the Koshyal or Kanshilya. Kashyap is originally one of the eight primary...

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

The Valmikis can be classified as a caste or sampradaya (tradition/sect). In the north-west Punjab region, this caste had adopted Sikhism. During the Indian...

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

the more nuanced system of Jātis, which correspond to the European term "caste". The varna system is discussed in Hindu texts, and understood as idealised...

The Nepalese caste system is the traditional system of social stratification of Nepal. The Nepalese caste system broadly borrows the classical Hindu Chaturvarnashram...

Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli...

The Bangali may refer to a Scheduled Caste found in northern India. They are distinct from the Bengali ethnic group of West Bengal and Bangladesh. The...

simply Republican) was a political party in India. It had its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The Party was established by Dr. Br. Ambedkar...

is an Indian caste native to Gujarat and Rajasthan. They traditionally worked as historians, genealogists and mythographers. The caste is also known...