intercaste

Examples

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• Within this caste federation, intercaste marriages were allowed and not regarded as such.

  Academic text (1994)

• The castes do not form important social units, and intercaste relations are unimportant.

  Academic text (1994)

• There are no strong sanctions or opposition within the family or extended kin group against intercaste marriages.

  Academic text (1994)

• These considerations that result in intercaste marriages gradually change the rules defining the inclusion of members in caste categories.

  Academic text (1994)

• This results in an increase in love marriages, relationships based on mutual affection, and the result often is intercaste marriage and more seldom interethnic marriage.

  Academic text (1994)

• With increasing intercaste marriages, caste as a distinct social group faces problems in reproducing itself as a bounded social entity.

  Academic text (1994)

• In order to explain the difficulties subcastes found in reproducing themselves as endogamous units and maintaining restrictions on intercaste relations, it is important to stress the composition of the immigrants and the system of recruitment.

  Academic text (1994)

• There have been many intercaste and interethnic marriages (between Hindu-Tamil, Hindu-Telugu, or Hindu-Marathi), but most marriages tend to be caste or verna endogamous.

  Academic text (1994)

• A caste ideology concerned with belief in hierarchy, the purity and pollution opposition, birth-ascribed status, and ritual rank is absent in the minds of most Mauritian Hindus and does not regulate intercaste relations.

  Academic text (1994)

• Intercaste marriage is becoming more common as society becomes more accepting of different social backgrounds.

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