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294903607
STA
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UPD
2012-03-23
DUT
kastenstelsels
IND
1
PPN
294903607
UDC
301.185.13
SN
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.
MRF
316.342.3
UF
castes
RT
ethnic groups
Hinduism
social classes
social status
social structure
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