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Definition of Subcastes
1. subcaste [n] - See also: subcaste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcastes
Literary usage of Subcastes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Caste in India: Evidence of the Laws of Manu on the Social by Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (1909)
"They are again divided into over three thousand castes, most of them having
subcastes. One of these castes, ie, that of the Brahmins (Brahmanas),2 is ..."
2. Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments by T. P. Tuong (2000)
"Among the backward castes, subcastes are the Bhuj, Chauhan, Gupta, Kohar, ...
The scheduled castes include subcastes such as Harijans, Kori, and Pasi. ..."
3. Essays and Lectures on the Industrial Development of India, and Other Indian by Pramatha Nath Bose (1906)
"... the multiplication of subcastes, divisions, and sub-divisions of subcastes,
went on with redoubled rapidity; restrictions more stringent than ever were ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... clans, septs, castes, subcastes, outcastes, religious orders, devotional
brotherhoods, occupations with no end of ceremonial rules and prescriptions, ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... clans, septs, castes, subcastes, outcastes, religious orders, devotional
brotherhoods, occupations with no end of ceremonial rules and prescriptions, ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... clans, septs, castes, subcastes, outcastes, religious orders, devotional
brotherhoods, occupations with no end of ceremonial rules and prescriptions, ..."
7. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"We all know of the four castes and the more than one thousand subcastes and
subdivisions of castes of the Hindus, preventing each ..."
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