Sentence examples for caste from inspiring English sources
The word "caste" is correct and can be used in written English
In general, it refers to the concept of a hereditary class system in any society or culture. You can use it to refer to a particular social class, as in, "The castes of Indian society are divided by occupation, lifestyle, religion, language, and other factors."
noun
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
The number of boarding groups began to resemble something like a caste system; "change fees," which have always been outrageous, grew higher (two hundred dollars for domestic, three hundred dollars for international), while baggage fees soared to as high as a hundred dollars.
In September, hundreds of Dalit families were forced from their homes in two other districts of Bihar after a man from the community tried to contest a local election against higher caste candidates.
He was a Dalit, from the lowest rung of the caste hierarchy that still defines the lives, and sometimes the deaths, of millions of people in the emerging economic power.
Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning author, recently accused Mahatma Gandhi, India's revered independence leader, of discrimination and called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed because of his attitude to caste.
The Iyer caste are brahmins, at the very top of the carefully graded hierarchy.
The girls are often born into slavery in a rigid caste system where "noble-borns", usually lighter-skinned Moors, indirectly or directly own darker-skinned Moors or black Africans.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, comes from a poor family from the lower-caste Ghanchi community, which is associated with selling oil.
A 2013 report by the UK's Department for International Development notes that "Dalits, Muslims and indigenous people are twice as likely to be poor" – with significant impacts on health and education – than higher-caste groups, and that the gap between disadvantaged and advantaged groups is increasing.
Such ceremonies are still performed by upper castes to eradicate "pollution" left by lower-caste visitors.
The main characters are all people on the margins: a Parsi woman holding on to what she has; lower-caste boys who are struggling with the new dispensations; a Muslim tailor.
Several political, social and economic factors usually lie behind such upsurges in caste-related violence.
