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Definition of Caste system
1. Noun. A social structure in which classes are determined by heredity.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caste System
Literary usage of Caste system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula (1999)
"The caste system India's caste system is perhaps the world's longest surviving
social hierarchy. A defining feature of Hinduism, caste encompasses a complex ..."
2. History of Education by Levi Seeley (1904)
"It is based on castes and the promulgation of the caste system, which is baneful.
3. It depends too much upon the cultivation of the memory. 4. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Nothing, indeed, is more remarkable in the whole development of the caste-system
than the jealous pride which every caste, from the highest to the lowest, ..."
4. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"The Approach of a caste system. — Thus society was crystallizing into castes.
Not only had the peasantry become serfs, attached from generation to ..."
5. Contrasts in Social Progress by Edward Payson Tenney (1910)
"In India is not the caste system inimical to the interest of working men ?
The devout and philosophical leaders of thought and shapers of life in Southern ..."
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