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Recent Examples of subcasteLet Israel choose the words to describe permanent control over a subcaste of about five million civilians who lack rights and representation.—Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023 Hybrid work could even effectively create a subcaste of employees for those who choose to continue doing their jobs remotely, career experts warn.—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 May 2021 India remains a largely conservative society where most people don’t marry outside their subcaste, let alone outside their faith.—Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2020
This early modern period would set the foundations of the rise of the transatlantic slave trade and a new form of slavery—hereditary racial slavery—that would be central to the creation of the racial-caste hierarchy and to the rise of Britain’s wealthy and brutal Caribbean slave empire.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
In his mind, the army was not a caste apart but an instrument of the republic – an arena in which self-command and civic virtue were tested.
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Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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