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The 34 pages that link to Caste system in India, each with the reason it gives.

• Bhakti movementCompared with: Some devotional voices criticized caste barriers, though communities differed in practice.

• Hindu nationalismRelated: Efforts to build a unified Hindu constituency interact with persistent caste divisions and inequalities.

• Vedic periodRelated: Later caste formations drew on, but cannot be reduced to, Vedic varna classifications.

• BrahminNarrower topic: Brahmin identity is one element within this broader and varied social system.

• LangarCompared with: Langar’s common table challenges caste-based separation in dining.

• DalitNarrower topic: It provides the hierarchy within which Dalit exclusion developed.

• JatiNarrower topic: Jati is a principal local unit within caste relations in South Asia.

• SanskritizationNarrower topic: Sanskritization operates within caste hierarchies without necessarily abolishing them.

• Hindu reform movementsRelated: Reformers differed sharply over whether caste could be transformed, retained, or abolished.

• Indian popular cultureRelated: Caste influences representation, access, and conflict in widely shared stories.

• KabirRelated: Kabir’s attacks on inherited religious status challenge caste-based claims to spiritual privilege.

• Purusha SuktaCompared with: The hymn is often invoked in debates that conflate its varnas with later caste realities.

• Arranged marriageRelated: Caste boundaries have influenced whom families consider an acceptable marriage partner.

• Brahmo SamajRelated: Brahmo reformers challenged caste restrictions, though their approaches and commitments varied.

• MegasthenesRelated: Megasthenes’s account of Indian social divisions is often compared with later evidence on caste.

• Mulk Raj AnandRelated: Caste hierarchy and untouchability shape the lives of central characters in Anand’s fiction.

• UntouchabilityNarrower topic: Untouchability has been enforced within caste hierarchies, though practices vary across communities and regions.

• The White TigerRelated: Inherited status helps explain the limits placed on Balram’s family.

• The God of Small ThingsNarrower topic: Caste makes Ammu and Velutha’s relationship a transgression with grave social consequences.

• HoliRelated: Holi’s temporary mixing is often described as boundary-crossing, though caste inequalities persist.

• KshatriyaNarrower topic: Kshatriya status operates within, but cannot summarize, India’s complex caste relations.

• ShudraNarrower topic: Shudra is interpreted within, but does not fully describe, caste relations.

• VaishyaRelated: Vaishya is interpreted within this wider and historically varied system.

• Arundhati RoyRelated: Caste restrictions and their violence are central to The God of Small Things.

• AyyankaliNarrower topic: The hierarchy supplied the wider structure his campaigns confronted.

• BrahmanismRelated: Brahmanical texts helped justify and organize forms of social hierarchy, though practice varied widely.

• TukaramRelated: Tukaram’s devotional vision is often read alongside the Varkari challenge to caste barriers.

• AyyavazhiNarrower topic: Ayyavazhi’s social setting included caste-based restrictions and struggles over dignity.

• Culture of IndiaRelated: Caste has structured social relations and remains a contested force in Indian public life.

• HindusRelated: Caste has shaped some Hindu social histories, though Hindu identity is not defined by it.

• Irawati KarveRelated: Karve examined caste alongside kinship to explain the structure of Indian society.

• LalonRelated: Lalon’s teachings challenged caste distinctions and the authority they confer.

• LingayatsRelated: Early Lingayat teachings challenged caste hierarchy, while caste identities remain debated within the community.

• Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama ReddyRelated: Samskara’s conflict exposes the power of caste rules within a Brahmin community.