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Definition of Subcaste
1. a subdivision of a caste [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcaste
Literary usage of Subcaste
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Caste in India: Evidence of the Laws of Manu on the Social by Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (1909)
"The words " caste " and " subcaste " are not absolute but comparative in signification.
... Maratha Brahmins in their turn would be called a subcaste of the ..."
2. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"We all know of the four castes and the more than one thousand subcastes and
subdivisions of castes of the Hindus, preventing each subcaste from eating, ..."
3. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1900)
"It would absorb Christianity, if Christians would consent to form a subcaste by
themselves and pay homage to the Brahmans. III. Its Solidity. ..."
4. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"... anything that cannot be immediately contradicted about the age at which girls
and boys are usually married; for in every subcaste, in every district, ..."
5. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"... or subcaste stemming from a rishi or satguru and bearing his name. Originally
described as several joint families sharing a common cowshed. ..."
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