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  2. Caste system among South Asian Muslims - Wikipedia

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    Historians and Urdu writers, including Masood Alam Falahi, have explained how discrimination by ashraf Muslims against lower-caste and Dalit Muslims was often disguised as claims of class and khandaani (family line) values by Uttar Pradesh Muslims. [19]

  3. Caste system in India - Wikipedia

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    A 1995 study notes that the caste system in India is a system of exploitation of poor low-ranking groups by more prosperous high-ranking groups. [227] A report published in 2001 note that in India 36.3% of people own no land at all, 60.6% own about 15% of the land, with a very wealthy 3.1% owning 15% of the land. [228]

  4. Sikhism and caste - Wikipedia

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    Sikhism's relationship to the caste system is a complex and controversial topic in the modern-period. [1] [2] Although the discriminatory practices derived from the Indian caste system is repudiated by the religion's tenets, which stresses upon humanity's oneness, castes continue to be recognized and followed by much of the Sikh community, including prejudices and biases resulting from it.

  5. Caste - Wikipedia

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    The osu class systems of eastern Nigeria and southern Cameroon are derived ... Maquet notes that the society in Rwanda ... Racial casteism is a term used to identify ...

  6. Tribal casteism - Wikipedia

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    Tribal casteism encompasses South Asian practices of social marginalisation within tribes. These practices are often overlooked by scholars and the media because of a colonial legacy that employed orientalist empiricism [ 1 ] to construct tribes as egalitarian and structurally opposite to Hindu caste society . [ 2 ]

  7. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - Wikipedia

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    Note The census figures for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes represent selective demography, as the first clause of Articles 341 and 342 specifies that Schedule status is specific to state or union territory (indicating nativeness of the region and the socio-economic disabilities arising therein), not to the whole country.

  8. Caste politics - Wikipedia

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    The British institutionalised caste into the workings of the major government institutions within India. The main benefactors of this indirect rule were the upper castes or forward castes, which maintained their hegemony and monopoly of control and influence over government institutes long after independence from the British.

  9. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

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    For him, the "father" of the institution of caste could be the Brahmins who adopted a strictly endogamous matrimonial regime, leading other groups to do the same to emulate this self-proclaimed elite. The priestly class in all ancient civilizations are the originators of this "unnatural Institution" founded and maintained through unnatural means.