Sentence examples for caste from the from inspiring English sources

The fire quickly spread, and ran from class to class, from caste to caste, from the civilians to the troops.

The brocaded shawl, the first garment to be produced, was inspired by the 19th-century weavings of the Merina people, the aristocratic caste from the highlands of Madagascar.

He was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, in 1932, the grandson of a Hindu in the Brahmin caste from the north of India who had moved to Trinidad to work on the sugar plantations.

The Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmins are treated as a separate and distinct caste from the Yajurvedi Madhyandina and Kannavas Brhamins by several authors, including Malhotra, Karve and Wilson.

"That is a heartbreaking symmetry of public attack," she says, "on people who had been in the lowest caste from the time of the founding of the country". "Symmetry" is an astute word to use here.

As political control shifted from the emperor to the newly formed shogunate, it became necessary to devise special costumes for the samurai, the caste from which the shogun drew his power.

It was a no-man's land that separated the ur from the colony, the upper castes from the untouchables.

Mr Bhattarai and his comrades are upper castes from the hills, just like NC and UML leaders.

His children, two sons and a daughter, were educated at the same private school as the upper castes from the village.

Yet the bureaucracy, government, press and economy are dominated by the upper castes from the Nepali highlands (Brahmins and Kshatriyas in Indian terms; Bahuns and Chhetris in Nepal) who make up perhaps 30% of the population.

Deshastha are the Maharashtrian Brahmin community with the longest known history, making them the original and the oldest Hindu Brahmin sub-caste from the Indian state of Maharashtra.