Finally, the desire to avoid distribution of family’s economic resources like property and land was found to be a leading economic determinant of caste-based endogamy. Further, endogamy hinders ...

Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From ...

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Within the Indian caste system, occupations were historically inherited. That, combined with social stratification—especially through endogamy, which allows people to marry only within their ...

Interestingly, a common feature across all applications is a caste filter that allows your profile to be visible to some castes and invisible to others, ensuring endogamy in the digital age.

Caste systems encourage endogamy, which means you always marry within your class to maintain society’s hierarchy long-term. In short, it’s privilege largely determined by birth. The “Late ...

For the purposes of this statement, caste is defined as follows: Caste is a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy and social barriers sanctioned by custom, ...

Caste is “a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy, and social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion,” according to the legislation.

Within the Indian caste system, occupations were historically inherited. That, combined with social stratification—especially through endogamy, which allows people to marry only within their ...