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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
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few.
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Hilary Gowins,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies.