Our tax laws essentially create a caste system, with barriers between income class levels.
That poverty, entrenched in a vicious caste system, is the tinder lit by the Maoists.
Putting one caste system behind, however, simply made room for a new system.
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The Chowdulis are Muslim, and therefore outside of the traditional Hindu caste system.
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Although the caste system was abolished when India gained independence in 1947, prejudices still remain, keeping the Dalits marginalised.
With its caste system, and bad state schools, India may be a more unequal society than the numbers alone suggest.
If they choose, they could develop their own caste system, based on service time and performance, to create associates and partners.
Apologists for the caste system argue that caste and kin networks have traditionally promoted trust, a keystone of any successful business.
Their lives continue to be influenced by the ancient Hindu caste system, which assigns each person a place in the social hierarchy.
The concept, called "Harmolodic, " Coleman says, removes the caste system from sound.
It hit me when I read the information on participants and figured out that even among the press there was a caste system.
But individual investors of all wealth levels need to accept that there is a caste system in the world of investments that excludes them.
But by accepting the poorest children as pupils, the Christians are seen as undermining India's Hindu caste system, which remains rigid in many areas.
Most critics have praised this saga of Phoolan Devi and her lone battle with the oppressive Indian caste system as a brave piece of cinema.
While Hindu nationalists claimed that the converts were bribed, a government investigation concluded that they probably simply wanted to cut free from the discriminatory caste system.
"The Ravidassias and other Dalits remain marginalized in Punjab, politically, religiously and economically, " said author Balbir Madhopuri, who has written several books on the Hindu caste system.
Roy's backdrop is the caste system and its myriad mysteries -- plus the unique nature of Kerala, where Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and Communists coexist, not always comfortably.
While it is easy to characterize this trend as a result of the widening class gap, in a recent discussion, Roth-Douquet characterized it as closer to a caste system.
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Christian converts, most of whom are born as dalits at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, often hide their new faith for fear of losing their rights to state jobs and university places kept for the lower castes.
The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.
Gypsy-gadje relations are made even trickier where traditional groups still observe laws shaped by a sense of imminent defilement, the idea (more understandable when framed within an Indian caste system) that contact with gadje, particularly sexual contact, is a kind of pollution punishable by banishment.
And with it came a caste system in which relatively few got rich while many remained mired in the worst sort of poverty: Chinese in the 1870s, Japanese two decades later, Hindustanis early in the new century, Mexicans and Filipinos during and after World War I.
This commands cross party support with such luminaries as the Lib Dem Lord Avebury, the Conservative Lord Deben (the artist formerly known as John Gummer), and Labour's Lady Thornton - and the Dalit Solidarity Network, which campaigns on behalf of those at the bottom of the South Asian caste system (sometimes called "untouchables") is organising a mass lobby in support.
We see this disparity in many countries where a caste system has been in operation for centuries, and just because a country boosts its GDP, does not mean it will be able to take the lead from the US. The advantage in my opinion goes to the US because we are such a young country and are flexible enough to make changes and adjustments.
They are reinforced by a Hindu caste-system perhaps even more entrenched than that in India, and by the discrimination long suffered by the Madhesi people of the lowland plains neighbouring India.
While common to the caste-like system of Persia, prostration was something the freedom-loving Greeks scorned.
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In one case, there is triumph over a bitter caste and class system marinated by certainty and cruelty, and in the other, over the aftermath of slavery in which some people who were white legally owned others who were black.
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