caste

fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification
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caste

Summary

caste ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,119 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • caste is a type of clan[2].
  • caste is a type of group of humans[3].
  • caste is a type of social class[4].
  • caste's Commons category is recorded as Castes[5].
  • caste's said to be the same as is recorded as social group[6].
  • caste's said to be the same as is recorded as ethnic group[7].
  • caste's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Caste[8].
  • caste's facet of is recorded as caste classification[9].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[16].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[17].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19].
  • caste's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • caste's different from is recorded as K.A.S.T.A.[21].
  • caste's different from is recorded as cast[22].
  • caste's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[23].
  • caste's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • caste's model item is recorded as Bania[25].
  • caste's model item is recorded as Yadav[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include clan[2], group of humans[3], and social class[4].

Influence

Things named for caste include Kasta[27], a musical group[28], in Russia[29], founded in 1999[30].

Why It Matters

caste ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,119 views/month).[1] caste has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] caste is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for caste include Kasta[27], a musical group[28], in Russia[29], founded in 1999[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX542848
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX542848"
  2. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → caste
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +8
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: caste, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289922865|caste (#289922865)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 11w ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +8
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q4114391]]"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0392695-kasty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0392695-kasty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6318, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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