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The court would have said the same of a Hindu school that gave preference to members of certain castes or of a German school that gave preference to children of “German blood.”

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So much so, to give you one example, that in the great province of Madras, when the Montagu report was put into operation, it was thought necessary to protect the other Hindu castes from the monopoly which the Brahmins might otherwise secure, and so they actually enacted that 28 seats in the Madras legislature must be filled by Hindu members who were not Brahmins.

India 1930

Laloo’s main message to the backward castes is that they must retain the voice and dignity that they have got all these years by consolidating power under his leadership.

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Others hold that the idea of castes is fundamentally opposed to that of class.

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Others hold that the idea of castes is fundamentally opposed to that of class.

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But it was surekha, who tilled her farm and fought for regaining the hold over a portion grabbed by the upper castes, which is a decisive political force in this part.

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But it was surekha, who tilled her farm and fought for regaining the hold over a portion grabbed by the upper castes, which is a decisive political force in this part.

Kherlanji Massacare - Dalit's raped and massacared by upper caste Hindu landlords, police try to cover up and protect their masters Abhay N 2006

Composed of half-castes, that is to say, of individuals whose diverse heredities have dissociated their ancestral characteristics, these populations have no national soul and therefore no stability.

The Psychology of Revolution 1913

It states however that they should not be performed by the first three castes, which is perhaps a way of saying that though they may be performed by non-Aryans under Brahmanic auspices they form no part of the Aryan religion.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

In the Central Provinces the 250 groups which have been classified as castes contain perhaps 2000 subcastes.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894