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Caste vs Bannian - What's the difference?

caste | bannian |

As nouns the difference between caste and bannian

is that caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of south asian societies while bannian is .

caste

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
  • A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  • * Macaulay
    • The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .

    Hyponyms

    * (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    bannian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A member of the vanika in the Indian caste system; a trader or merchant belonging to the business class.
  • * 1749 — , Book III ch ii
    • This species of men, from the great severity with which they revenge the death of a hare or partridge, might be thought to cultivate the same superstition with the Bannians' in India; many of whom, we are told, dedicate their whole lives to the preservation and protection of certain animals; was it not that our English ' Bannians , while they preserve them from other enemies, will most unmercifully slaughter whole horse-loads themselves; so that they stand clearly acquitted of any such heathenish superstition.