Sentence examples for caste themselves from inspiring English sources

In taking this stance, it backs powerful interests within the Hindu community who claim representative status, deny that there is a serious problem and – no surprises here – happen to be mainly "upper caste" themselves.

They became their own community, a kind of caste unto themselves".

He stated opponents were seeking to separate the poor into a lower caste than themselves, and accused the rich of greed and failure to empathize with the poor.

In the course of six weeks in 1990, according to Biggs, about two hundred Indian university students from high castes set themselves on fire to protest the government's decision to open up spots to Untouchables.

Our caste prejudices manifest themselves most clearly in the matrimonial newspaper columns, where prospective brides and grooms of all religions are sought for traditional marriage alliances.

In this context, newcomers — like previous waves of immigrants in the past — may feel pressed to identify with the dominant caste and distance themselves from blacks, in order to survive.

In the study area there are scheduled caste women who consider themselves TBAs and conduct deliveries and postnatal care.

The children of the lower castes were hoisting themselves up one diploma and training program at a time.

The Hindu nationalists, who draw most of their support in Bihar from the upper castes, had allied themselves with Ram Vilas Paswan, a Dalit leader in a regional party.

It is, after all, the colonists' way to refuse to recognise their subjects' differentness, and to behave as if they are just lower-caste versions of themselves for whom poor treatment is basically inevitable.

Of course, this was not an absolute relationship: many high caste households did not consider themselves as rich, whilst some low caste respondents did not see themselves as particularly poor.