Caste systems in Africa are a form of social stratification found in numerous ethnic groups, found in over fifteen countries, particularly in the Sahel...

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and...

integral to the Indian caste system. It developed as a result of relations between the foreign conquerors and local upper caste Hindus who were forced...

Random House. The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized...

casta, meaning race. Terms such as half-caste, caste, quarter-caste and mix-breed were used by colonial officials in the British Empire during their classification...

use of the term caste is more prevalent in South Asia and Bali, in the United States, Indian Americans also use the term caste. Caste is not officially...

communities. The role that castes play in India's political system was institutionalised by the British colonists where upper-caste dominance within government...

the historic artisan castes in West Africa, particularly among the Tuareg people. Sometimes referred to as an endogamous caste and sometimes as endogamous...

had the most stratified caste system in Africa (...)" Gwyn Campbell (2013). Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Routledge. pp...