Sentence examples for of lower caste from inspiring English sources
Who is due more respect, the Brahmin teacher or his students, who are of lower caste but are clearly his social betters?
Lalu Prasad, a wily populist politician whose party peddles a message of lower caste empowerment, ran the state for 15 years from beneath a banyan tree.
Contact with a person of lower caste (such as eating or drinking from his hands, bodily contact) pollutes the member of a higher caste and necessitates ritual purification.
Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images 4.01pm GMT An Indian woman sells portraits and books of lower caste leaders as lower caste people gather near the Indian parliament for a protest demanding affirmative action in private company jobs, in New Delhi, India.
Often young girls who belong to the Dalit ("untouchable" in the caste system) are raped in a form of lower caste oppression - prompting a local Congress politician to allege the rape reports were a "political conspiracy" by the state's dalit-based party.
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Mr. Yadav and Mr. Banjare, for example, are both members of lower castes.
The illiteracy rate is particularly high in rural areas, among women and people of lower castes.
In addition, poor women and women of lower castes are much more likely to be raped.
A study in India found the dialects of lower castes were characterised by others as "ignorant" and "backward".
In 2007, Nepal's interim constitution provided a legal basis to the rights of minorities and introduced quotas for members of lower castes and women.
