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Historically, the caste system in India has consisted of thousands of endogamous groups called Jatis or Quoms (among Muslims). Independent India has witnessed caste-related violence. The Nepalese caste system resembles that of the Indian Jāti system with numerous Jāti divisions with a Varna system superimposed for a rough equivalence. Religious, historical and sociocultural factors have helped define the bounds of endogamy for Muslims in some parts of Pakistan. The Caste system in Sri Lanka is a division of society into strata, influenced by the classic Aryan Varnas of North India and the Dravida Jāti system found in South India.

Balinese caste structure has been described in early 20th-century European literature to be based on three categories – triwangsa (thrice born) or the nobility, dwijati (twice born) in contrast to ekajati (once born) the low folks. In China during the period of Yuan Dynasty, ruler Kublai Khan enforced a Four Class System, which was a legal caste system. The order of four classes of people was maintained by the information of the descending order were: Mongolian, Semu people, Han people (in the northern areas of China), and Southerners (people of the former Southern Song Dynasty). In Japan's history, social strata based on inherited position rather than personal merits, was rigid and highly formalized. With the unification of the three kingdoms in the 7th century and the foundation of the Goryeo dynasty in the Middle Ages, Koreans systemised its own native class system.

Yezidi society is hierarchical. In Yemen there exists a hereditary caste, the African-descended Al-Akhdam who are kept as perennial manual workers. Various sociologists have reported caste systems in Africa.