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Castes in the sense of not-marrying with commoners?
John Locke's Wager, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For India's Lowest Castes, Path Forward is 'Backward' India is trying to engineer advancement for its underclass through a vast and growing affirmative-action program.
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The rebellion is so successful that the Maya almost manage to take over the entire peninsula in what has become known as the War of the Castes.
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The War of the Castes comes to an end, although there are armed cruzobs in the jungle until at least 1935.
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The rebellion is so successful that the Maya almost manage to take over the entire peninsula in what has become known as the War of the Castes.
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The All-India Scheduled Castes Federation was formed in 1942 to gather all ‘untouchables’ into a united political party.
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar – Alibagh « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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The War of the Castes comes to an end, although there are armed cruzobs in the jungle until at least 1935.
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Hailing from the 'dhobi' caste, which is one of the Scheduled Castes, Manish, as a student of Standard IX in Ballia was not very comfortable going to the homes of his classmates to collect clothes for washing or for delivering them after they were washed.
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Dalits and India's aboriginals (listed in the Constitution as "Scheduled Castes and Tribes") are entitled to 85 seats in India's 543-member parliament that are "reserved" for candidates from their communities.
Shashi Tharoor: An Obama Moment for India's Untouchables 2009
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On the contrary as a result of written and oral orders of Mayawati the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act-1989 has become inoperative.
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