Sentence examples for of the castes from inspiring English sources

Yet despite the statements in the texts on dharma, there was considerable fluidity in the status of the castes.

We constructed a normalized polyphenic expressed sequence tag (EST) library that represents genomic material from most of the castes and life stages of the Formosan subterranean termite.

In previous versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, a sweeping war epic, conflict and decay are direct consequences of the mixing of the castes and a lack of respect for the Brahmins.

Hindus maintain that the proliferation of the castes (jatis, literally "births") was the result of intermarriage (which is prohibited in Hindu works on dharma), which led to the subdivision of the four classes, or varnas.

This danger and the lingering War of the Castes kept most visitors away for the next 40 years; but not all of them, for in 1860 Desire Charnay arrived and then managed, under most difficult conditions, to take a justly famous set of large-format photographs (Viollet-le-Duc and Charnay 1863).

Many members of the castes and tribal communities leave primary schools by age of 11, so don't get any sex education whatsoever".

In India, at the height of the caste system, executioners were considered Chandala, or untouchables, completely cast out from society.

And they disapprove – collectively – of the caste system.

The destruction of the caste system allowed for only limited loosening of racial and class hierarchies.

No one denies that the abuse of the caste system in Hinduism is a huge problem.

Das is a dalit, a member of the caste formerly known as untouchables.