Caste Systems are a religious version & variation of the traditional social class system, hereditary systems of social class in many parts of the world. Today, it is most commonly associated with India and the Hindu caste system. In a caste society, the assignment of individuals to places in the social hierarchy is fixed by birth, justified by custom, law, or religion. This classification is based on social occupation, endogamy, social class, and social group. The key main attribute is, it is a Religious social class system. Definitions Caste is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as both, "Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status,"and "Any exclusive social class".http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/caste?view=uk Although Hinduism is often now associated with the word caste, it was first used by the Portuguese to d

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