subcaste

subcaste

(ˈsʌbˌkɑːst)
n
(Sociology) a subdivision of a caste
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Such language further supports the perpetuation of corporate exploitation and social abandonment of the Appalachian people outside of the already increasing criminalization of this subcaste of whiteness.
A cephalometric study among subcaste groups Dangi and Ahirwar of Khurai Block.
But, she also describes how the untouchable community exerts its own systems of discriminations and exclusions: Malas, for instance, are one subcaste of untouchable and do not mingle with Madigas, another subcaste.
The year that the IPWA was founded, 1935, Anand published his classic novel, Untouchable, an expose of the treatment meted out to this lowly subcaste, told from the point of view of a young "sweeper" (latrine cleaner).
These sculptures used to be made exclusively by a hereditary artisan caste known as the Vishwakarma who specify their subcaste as Sthapati.
A historian of Asian art, Bose examines chatris (cenotaphs) commissioned by the Rajputs, members of a Hindi subcaste that is part of the wider martial and aristocratic Kshatriya caste.
Advertisements from a specific caste or subcaste group are generally clubbed together in both the "brides wanted" and "grooms wanted" sections of the newspaper.
"We uncovered an ancestral development potential to produce a novel supersoldier subcaste that has been retained throughout a hyperdiverse ant genus that evolved 35 to 60 million years ago," authors Dr Rajendhran Rajakumar, from McGill University, Canada, and colleagues wrote.
The codes by which literate Brahmans (largely of the Chitpavan subcaste of Brahmans) historically augmented their power entailed restricting mobility to others, especially women and members of other castes.
About his community certificate, Umashankar, whose " mother is a Christian and father a Hindu", said: " My mother named me Ashok and got my caste recorded as Christian Pallar ( a Dalit subcaste) in my SSLC book.
If these relationships are arranged in an order of increasing magnitude, that is, from the smallest unit to the largest, the resultant series would roughly resemble the following: (1) individual family, (2) a small group or related families of the kula or khandan type, (3) larger associations of relatives (for example, thok or biradari), (4) higher exogamous units (for example, gotra or got), (5) an amalgamation of several units into an endogamous "marriage network," (6) endogamous subcaste, and (7) the caste proper.