Caste system is a form of social stratification characterised by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.
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Scholars believe that the Varnas Caste system was never truly operational in society and there is no evidence of it ever being a reality in Indian history.
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Socio-economic limitations of the caste system are reduced due to urbanisation and affirmative action.
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Nevertheless, the caste system still exists in endogamy and patrimony, and thrives in the politics of democracy, where caste provides ready made constituencies to politicians.
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Some members of the Chhattisgarh Potter Caste system Community are middle-class urban professionals and no longer potters unlike the remaining majority of traditional rural potter members.
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Nepali caste system resembles in some respects the Indian jati system, with numerous jati divisions with a varna system superimposed.
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Today, the Hukou system is argued by various Western sources to be the current caste system of China.
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One measure was the new household registration Caste system, reflecting the goals of formal social equality, which was implemented by the loyalists' cabinet.
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Whereas the old registration Caste system signified household members according to their hierarchical social status, the new Caste system called for an occupation.
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Caste system did disavow his position in 1937, suggesting that blacks were a minority and not a caste.
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Caste system wrote "while the fundamental industries of man are dispersed throughout the insect world, the same kind of polymorphism appears again and again in different species of social insects which have reacted in the same manner as man, under the influence of the same environment, to ensure the supply and provision of subsistence.
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