Sentence examples for old caste from inspiring English sources

In India, old caste rigidities are being broken down (see article).

By 1848, a large and prosperous commercial class was wreaking havoc on England's old caste system.

The feisty spirit of the old caste system lives in a Philadelphia sports blog called The 700 Level, named for those seats and the raw emotions that sprang from them.

At over three thousand years old, caste hierarchy is one of the oldest forms of social stratification in the world: the community you are born into in places like India, Pakistan and Nepal has designated where you can work, who you can marry, and what your reputation is in life.

Instead, as Biju, trawling through a series of illegal catering jobs in New York, discovers, the old caste systems are still in place: 'Above the restaurant was French, but below in the kitchen, it was Mexican and Indian.' That is not to say that Desai's novel is an unremittingly depressing affair.

The silent marches have quickly turned a centuries-old caste issue into a social media sensation.

They are influenced more by India's centuries-old caste system, in which members of the lowest group — formerly called "untouchables" — would clear away human waste.

Generous early-retirement provisions mean that many will leave their posts fairly soon.To replace them, governments will have to offer something more than the steady life that attracted the older caste of mandarins.

Public policy in modern India features affirmative action programs intended to reduce inequality that stems from a centuries-old caste structure and history of disparate treatment by gender.

Many in India have embraced Christianity to escape the age-old caste oppression of the Hindu social order, but Christianity itself in some places is finding it difficult to shrug off the worst of caste discrimination.

Indian families were now adopting these abandoned children and importantly were not concerned about the age-old caste differences.