• The caste system in the Maldives is the social stratification system found among the ethnic groups of the island. The history of the stratification of...
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    The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the...
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    The Sultanate of Maldive Islands was an Islamic monarchy that controlled the Maldives for 815 years (1153–1968), with one interruption from 1953–1954...
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    of the Maldives National Library of Maldives Politics of the Maldives Sultanate of Maldives Ryavec 1995, p. 257. "MaldivesThe commonwealth". The commonwealth...
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  • concentrated in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan, while the Muslims are concentrated in Afghanistan (99%), Bangladesh (91%), Pakistan (96%) and Maldives (100%)...
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  • The Judiciary in the Maldives has been a systematic institution throughout the history of the nation. It has always been an institution which is under...
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  • (1977). The Caste System in Tamil Nadu. University of Madras. Venkatasubramanian, T. K. (1993). Societas to Civitas Evolution of Political Society in South...
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  • ("pariah caste"), which often refers to persons from the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. On 26 November 2018, a riot was launched by several...
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    undertaken by the British in 1931 (the Census of 1941 also asked caste, but the tables were never published). Religion in Kerala Caste system in Kerala Migrant...
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  • in this way, became Queen of the Maldives." Gracias (1996), p. 38. "In the mid-sixteenth century the ruler of Maldives (who had converted to Christianity)...
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    north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands...
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  • Mauritians of Indian origin (category Indian diaspora in Mauritius)
    popular. Due to local demographic realities, the Indian Caste System was not directly implemented in the Mauritian context. Nathacha Appanah Amode Ibrahim...
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    drove the creation of caste system? DNA holds a clue". theprint. 29 June 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2022. Danesh Jain, George Cardona (2007). The Indo-Aryan...
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    kingdom was based on a caste system and a matrilineal kudi (clan) system similar to the caste structure of South India. The Aryacakravarti kings and their...
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    and the establishment of the characteristic social groups (Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras) in the caste system based on the Jāti model in the...
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    due to the Muslim Caste System in India established by Ziauddin al-Barani in the Fatawa-i Jahandari, where they were regarded as an "Ajlaf" caste and subjected...
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    tiller-plainsmen from the Shudra caste; they were part of the Marathas/Kunbis, an amorphous class-group. Scholars have however disagreed about the agricultural...
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  • Class (2023 TV series) (category Mass media portrayals of the upper class)
    Shows in India Today’ list. It also debuted at Number 1 in Bangladesh while also debuting Top 10 in the ‘Top 10 TV Shows’ lists of Bahrain, Maldives, Mauritius...
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    proselytizing in the villages, hastening the breakdown of the caste system. After the 1930s, Hindu conversions to Christianity slowed because the status of...
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    The public health care system was originally developed in order to provide a means to healthcare access regardless of socioeconomic status or caste....
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  • castes, artisan castes, cultivator castes (kurmi), grazier castes (ahir), landholding castes (thakur), and priestly castes (Brahmin). There were also significant...
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  • Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia (category Peopling of the world)
    (January 2009). "The Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a1* substantiates the autochthonous origin of Brahmins and the caste system". Journal of Human...
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    observe caste system and intercaste restrictions have been unimportant in Mauritius. Most scholars, states Hollup, observe that this may be because "the economic...
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    was arrested with the accusation of apostasy and blasphemy in 2014 as well, for publishing an essay on the racist caste system in Mauritanian society...
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    M. Karunanidhi (category Leaders of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu)
    parents were from the Isai Vellalar caste, a caste of musicians that perform at temples and other social gatherings. Growing up in a caste-ridden culture...
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    Pakistan. There is a significant increase in the influence of Iskcon due to its rejection of caste system. Iskcon has been conducting Rathayatras since...
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    Discrimination (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2023)
    religious gatherings might be raided by the religious police. In Maldives, non-Muslims living and visiting the country are prohibited from openly expressing...
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  • Sri Lankan Chetties (category Caste system in Sri Lanka)
    Chetties, are an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. Before 2001, they were known as the Sri Lankan Tamil ( ශ්‍රී ලංකා දෙමළ) caste, but then after 2001,...
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  • Religious democracy (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    Denmark, Norway, England Islamic: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, Mauritania,Maldives, Morocco Buddhist: Bhutan, Sri Lanka Jewish: Israel Contemporary states...
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    V. P. Singh (category Leaders of the Rajya Sabha)
    were killed). Singh was an upper caste man and had ruled the vote bank of upper-caste people in Uttar Pradesh for the Indian National Congress. He resumed...
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