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Caste vs Subcaste - What's the difference?

caste | subcaste |

As nouns the difference between caste and subcaste

is that caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies while subcaste is a subgrouping of a caste.

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

    * * ----

    subcaste

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subgrouping of a caste

    • Anagrams

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