User:Colonel Warden/List of Indian castes

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This is a list of Indian castes:[1]

In the Indian caste system, there are numerous narrow castes defined by practice and in literature, all or most within four large caste categories: (the varnas): viz Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras.[2][3][4][5] Certain people were excluded altogether, ostracized by all other castes and treated as untouchables.[6][7]

Outside the caste system, proper, are persons excluded from the caste system: Dalits (Untouchables), Christians, Buddhists, and others. There exist 1,108 Scheduled castes identified within the Indian constitution of 1950: Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 castes across 25 states in its First Schedule,[8] These are disadvantaged groups, all or mostly not castes in the sense meant here. See List of Scheduled castes for these.

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The following is a list of notable castes:

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  1. ^ People of India National series ; volumes 4 to 6 India's communities editor K.S. Singh Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-19-563354-7
  2. ^ Manu ((Lawgiver)); Manu; Patrick Olivelle (2004). The law code of Manu. Oxford University Press. pp. 185–. ISBN 978-0-19-280271-2. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  3. ^ Braja Dulal Mookherjee (2002). The Essence of Bhagavad Gita. Academic Publishers. pp. 472–. ISBN 978-81-87504-40-5. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  4. ^ Kingship and community in early India—Page 85, Charles Drekmeier—1962, ISBN 0-8047-0114-8
  5. ^ Cultural Studies—Page 208, Lawrence Goodrich, ISBN 1-4496-3728-0
  6. ^ Sadangi (2008). Emancipation of Dalits and Freedom Struggle. ISBN 978-81-8205-481-3.
  7. ^ Christophe Jaffrelot (2006). "The Impact of Affirmative Action in India: More Political than Socioeconomic". India Review. 5 (2): 173–189. doi:10.1080/14736480600824516.
  8. ^ Text of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, as amended
  9. ^ Gore, M.S. Urbanization and Family Change. Popular Prakashan, 1990. p. 70. ISBN 9780861322626.
  10. ^ William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi. History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in South Asia / Indian Subcontinent (1656-2010). Soyinfo Center, 2010. p. 758. ISBN 9781928914310.
  11. ^ Bayly 1999, p. 320.

Sources[edit]

  • Bayly, Susan (1999), "Caste, Society and Politics in India", The New Cambridge History of India, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6
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