Sentence examples for middle caste from inspiring English sources

While the B.J.P. is said to command the loyalties of upper caste Hindu voters, the J.D.U.'s main social base are Kurmi and Koeri middle caste voters.

This was not enough for them to displace Lalu Prasad Yadav, who had governed Bihar, along with his wife Rabri Devi, for 15 years from 1990-2005 byokingng together middle caste Yadav and Muslim votes.

"Nitish Kumar, a quiet strategist, split the middle caste vote into two, and consolidated the most backward caste in his favor," said Ashwani Kumar, a political scientist at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and the author of the book "Community Warriors: State, Peasants, and Caste Armies in Bihar".

Lower-caste folk in Bhokhila complained bitterly about a cabal of middle castes and state officials who siphoned off resources from development projects.

In Bhokhila low and middle castes have quarrelled over such issues as the control of land and the award of contracts for public works, conflicts echoed in clashes between radical-left and conservative parties.

In theory it could join forces with the BSP, but many Dalits are at odds with the middle castes that make up the bulk of the Samajwadi Party's support and the two parties' leaders hate each other.

Around the same time, a popular movement against brahmins especially lordly in the south emboldened members of the lower and middle castes, including gounders, who were quick to convert their new assertiveness into business.The Hindu caste system has never been rigid.

The Mandal Commission report, advocating affirmative action for intermediate (middle) castes, had sparked a series of clashes between different castes.

Higher and middle castes may stay together in the same hamlet, whereas low (scheduled) caste people always live in a different hamlet located at some distance from higher caste hamlets of the village.

On the other hand, married women in GOI subsidized latrine households who tended to be of low and middle castes with little outside exposure, going for open defecation in the evening provided many of them with one of the rare daily opportunities to escape the house, the scrutiny of the mother-in-law, and the confines of their hamlet and socialize with women friends and peers.

Middle-caste Hindus whose lives are fast improving dominate nearby villages.