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    Caste
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    CASTE Port., casta =basket, ranked groups based on heredity within rigid systems of social stratification, especially those that constitute Hindu India. Some scholars, in fact, deny that true caste systems are found outside India. The caste is a closed group whose members are severely restricted in their choice of occupation and degree of...
     
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    Mamluk
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...Mameluke mam look Arab.,=slaves, a warrior caste dominant in Egypt and influential in the...years. Islamic rulers created this warrior caste by collecting non-Muslim slave boys and...ruled by Mamluk sultans supported by a caste of warrior slaves, from which the sultans...
     
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    Harijans
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...individuals who are at the bottom of or outside the Hindu caste system. They were traditionally sweepers, washers of clothes...powerful in Indian politics. Jagjivan Ram, one of the first of his caste to receive a formal education, held several cabinet posts under...
     
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    Levites
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    LEVITES le vits, a religious caste among the ancient Hebrews, descended from Jacobs son Levi and figuring prominently in the Bible. There were three divisions of...
     
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    Magi
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    MAGI ma ji, priestly caste of ancient Persia. Probably Median in origin, they were, according to Herodotus, a tribe rather than a priestly family. Zoroaster...
     

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