Caste (disambiguation)

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Caste is a system of social stratification and hierarchy in human societies. It may also refer to:

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Patel is an Indian surname or title, predominantly found in the state of Gujarat, representing the community of land-owning farmers and later businessmen, agriculturalists and merchants. Traditionally the title is a status name referring to the village chieftains during medieval times, and was later retained as successive generations stemmed out into communities of landowners. Circa 2015 there are roughly 500,000 Patels outside India, including about 150,000 in the United Kingdom and about 150,000 in the United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, yearly 1 in 10 people of Indian origin in the US is a Patel.

Pawar is an Indian surname found among the Maratha, Mahar or Koli people in Maharashtra.

Nayak may refer to:

Aladdin is a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin.

Deshpande is a surname native to the Indian states of Karnataka, and Maharashtra. The surname can be also found in some parts of Himachal Pradesh. Deshpande surname is found among the Deshastha Brahmins, Gaud Saraswat Brahmins (GSB) and the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus (CKP).

Thakur may refer to:

Kalinga may refer to:

Oberoi is a surname used by the Punjabi Khatri caste of northern India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caste system in India</span> Social classification practiced in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj. It is today the basis of affirmative action programmes in India as enforced through its constitution. The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system.

Dutta, also spelled Datta, is an Indian family name. Its variation is Dutt.

A Balinese name is part of a system of identification used by the Balinese people and in the western parts of the neighboring island of Lombok, Indonesia. A Balinese name will have three parts: a title, a birth order name and a personal name. Balinese people do not use a family name.

Saxena is an Indian surname primarily found in northern and Central India. It is a common surname found amongst the Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha community of upper caste Hindus particularly in the Hindi-speaking regions of India. Saxena, in origin, is derived from the Sanskrit word sakhisena meaning “friend of the army”.

Sagar may refer to:

Raj or RAJ may refer to:

<i>Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development</i> 1917 book by B. R. Ambedkar

Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development was a paper read by B. R. Ambedkar at an anthropological seminar of Alexander Goldenweiser in New York on 9 May 1916. It was later published in volume XLI of Indian Antiquary in May 1917. In the same year, Ambedkar was awarded a PhD degree by Columbia University on this topic. In 1979, the Education Department of the Government of Maharashtra (Bombay) published this article in the collection of Ambedkar's writings and speeches Volume 1; later, it was translated in many languages.

The Panchayat is a political system, originating from the Indian subcontinent, found mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

Gaekwad is a surname native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. The surname is found among the Marathas, Kolis, Mali and in Scheduled castes. It is also a common surname among Bharadis, Dhor, and Mahar communities of Maharashtra.

Gopi is a word of Sanskrit origin meaning "cow-herd girl'".

Dahal is a Nepali surname of Khas origin, and also prevalent in some regions of India mainly in Sikkim, Uttarakhand and few parts of Bhutan. The Dahals belong to the Khas ethnic group, within the gentry class including Brahmin, Chhetri (ruling) or castes in accordance to traditional Hindu classification system.