Hindu caste
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The endogamous social division within which a Hindu is required to marry.
The fact that certain ancient races extended their prohibitions of intermarriage far beyond the narrow boundaries of our Table of Prohibited Degrees—that, theoretically at all events, they forbade a man’s marrying any woman whose descent from the same ancestor with himself was ascertainable—was not unknown to students of Hindu law;
The Law of Torts
A Hindu caste whose customary annual feast and exclusion practices illustrate quasi-judicial protection under section 18.
are members of the same Hindu caste.