Traditionally, Indian society was divided into four main castes.
Ant colonies are founded on two main "castes" of ant: queens, whose sole function is reproduction, and their industrious, sterile, worker daughters.
According to Raman Mahadevan, a business historian, this is partly because members of the south's main trading caste, the chettiars, chose to concentrate their investments outside India during the 19th century, in Malaya and Singapore.Partly as a result, little large-scale industry emerged in southern India until the 1930s.
Writer interviews leaders of the 2 main Hindu castes-the Nairs and the Ezhavas; also interviews leaders of Congress & Communist parties of Kerala.
Besides the four main varna, or castes, India has uncounted thousands of sub-castes, few of which census officials will recognise.
Whatsoever be the truth, this caste's main characteristics are to do duties with pen and paper and to earn a wage.
It may be said the history is totally vague, but the recent history is more clear, and the main occupation of the caste was originally to repair the ceilings of mud houses.
And the BJP's alliance in Karnataka bombed because its partner, the Janata Dal (United), was an unpopular incumbent.Within states, the main unit of electoral account is caste.
Traditionally, Hinduism proscribed a strictly ordered social caste system with 4 main groups: Brahmin (priests), Kshatriyas (nobles and warriors), Vaishyas (craftsmen and farmers), and Shudras (unskilled laborers).
As leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal party, Mr. Yadav, who cultivated an image of a leader of the lower castes, has been a main ally of the governing national coalition of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, led by the Congress Party.
In principle, Sikhism rejects caste divisions; one of its main tenets is the equality of all believers.
