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Progressive evolution of the concept of caste in these normative texts may be traced to desire of priest and noble to perpetuate supremacy, to diversification of specialized occupation, to indigenous rules of endogamy, and to absorption of the sudras, many of whom improved their servile status.
C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001
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The warrior ksatriya class was devoted to government and defense; the vaisya were farmers and stockbreeders who kept the economy afloat; and the sudras were slaves or outcastes who were unable to assimilate into the Aryan system.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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But we must not suppose that all Brahmins are rich, and all sudras poor; for it is not so.
Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840
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You would be astonished to hear the great respect the sudras pay to the high and haughty Brahmins.
Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840
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But the sudras are not the _most_ despised people.
Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840
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There are sudras as rich as princes; but still a sudra can never be as honorable as a Brahmin, though the Brahmin be the cook and the sudra the master.
Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840
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They do not even figure in the Hindu varna (social classification) in which the sudras are at the lowest rung.
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