They are important sources for caste identity though usually contested by rival castes.

He believed that to truly devote yourself to Lord Rama, one must forget one's caste identity and social status.

They never outlawed caste identity, but they dreamed of the day when it would not hold people back.

Obinna discusses how this caste system-related identity and power is deployed within government, Church and indigenous communities.

Though Mahanubhav sect believers should not believe in the caste system, most of these people still maintain their caste identity and follow endogamy.

Study the artifacts in the Museum, renew your dedication to the system formulated by our forefathers: you have no heritage more precious than your caste identity!

Then as now, the argument flared within one caste, underscoring the continuing force of caste identity in India.

Well, until then I had considered the Warriors to have a caste identity: effective, but swaggering and arrogant.

Although born into an orthodox Brahmin family, he gave up his own caste identity.

But on the way, it detached the caste identities by stating that it was not suited for the present Kali Yukam.