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What is a caste?

What is a caste? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
  2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  3. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
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Most are from among the Untouchables in the now outlawed caste system, and regard it as their duty to pay off their parents' debts.
No human community ever existed in the past, nor does it exist now which does not have caste system in one form or the other.
He insisted that the Soviet bureaucracy was not, as Trotsky had analyzed, a reactionary privileged caste, but rather a new ruling class.
A republican government does not comfortably coexist with a submerged caste within the population.
A Vaishnava in his early life, he became a worshipper of brahm and condemned the caste system.
Indian soldiers were only too happy to go to war on behalf of the Empire, even though, for Hindus, crossing the dark ocean meant losing caste.

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