shudra

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In these temples the entry of shudra-atishudra was prohibited quite unlike the mosques, churches. gurudwaras or monasteries which were more or less open to general masses and they could pray there collectively without a thought of high and low pervading caste society.

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  1. the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status
  2. a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste

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  • In these temples the entry of shudra-atishudra was prohibited quite unlike the mosques, churches. gurudwaras or monasteries which were more or less open to general masses and they could pray there collectively without a thought of high and low pervading caste society. —  Countercurrents.org
  •  Kshatriya Varna was recruited from a wide var. of caste, (medieval Pala dynasty of Bengal: shudra & patidars of Gujarat peasant)  Sanskritization  Open agrarian system (spatial mobility). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • He alongwith his wife Savitribai started the first school for shudra-atishudra girls in 1848. —  Kafila
  • Born into a caste-divided community, she triumphed over her social status as a hereditary member of the shudra Gangamat, or boatman caste. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • For generations high-caste men took shudra women in a pernicious practice little better than legalised free sex known as angavasthra (body-cloth). —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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