For higher caste members it is normal to perform the ritual within 3 days.
A community centre for the scheduled caste members has also been constructed.
It being widely held perhaps with good reason that any building not designed and built by members of the caste would be unsafe.
The title Chetti is assumed by the members of the caste.
Shankaracharya asked them to go away as he did not want to be polluted by coming near to members of the lower caste.
The tribe's leader is almost always a member of the military caste, typically with roguish skills.
Corruption thus translated into power and a means to enter the political arena, once only open to upper caste members.
Commander," she began at last, "among my fellow caste members, I am considered old and knowledgeable.
All were tribals, members of the scheduled caste, what used to be called outcastes.
Less fortunate caste members provided much of the labour for graphite mines.