User:Colonel Warden/List of Indian castes

This is a list of Indian castes:

In the Indian caste system, there are numerous narrow castes defined by practice and in literature, all or most within four large caste categories: (the varnas): viz Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. Certain people were excluded altogether, ostracized by all other castes and treated as untouchables.

Outside the caste system, proper, are persons excluded from the caste system: Dalits (Untouchables), Christians, Buddhists, and others. There exist 1,108 Scheduled castes identified within the Indian constitution of 1950: Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 castes across 25 states in its First Schedule,  These are disadvantaged groups, all or mostly not castes in the sense meant here. See List of Scheduled castes for these.

List
The following is a list of notable castes:


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