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caste systems
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System including classes or groups of people distinguished by hierarchical ranking, occupational specificity, ritual complementarity, endogamy and hereditary membership, likened to the hereditary classes of Hindu society.
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castes
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ethnic groups
Hinduism
social classes
social status
social structure
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05.01 SOCIETY GENERAL
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