Which preposition to use with caste

of Occurrences 42%

"] [Footnote 4: The Vaisyas, or the bourgeois caste of Hindu society, are described here as "resident scholars.

in Occurrences 31%

"It is not easy to take the life of one of my caste in India; and, by dint of the exertions of my friends, in spite of the influence of Shunah Shoo, and the family of the Omrah, I was pardoned, on condition of doing penance, which was, that I should never live in a country in which the religion of Brahmin prevailed, and should not again look at, or converse with, any woman for two minutes together.

with Occurrences 11%

Your class, Darry, would lose caste with the fellows here if it allowed such an insult to go.

by Occurrences 9%

It is the Emperor William and the Czar Ferdinand who have betrayed not only humanity but their own strange caste by shattering all these pleasant illusions.

among Occurrences 7%

But Calvin wished to destroy caste among the clergy, and consequently spiritual tyranny.

from Occurrences 5%

It was not until 1881 that Pennsylvania finally swept away all the distinctions of caste from her public school system.

to Occurrences 3%

It will remain a by-word for all time, and yet, appalling as it may have been, it was the legitimate and the logical result of the opposition made by caste to the advent of equality before the law.

than Occurrences 3%

This is entirely a mistake, for the genuine Creole, instead of being an object of contempt and pity, is rather an aristocrat and of a higher caste than the average white man.

as Occurrences 2%

The street sprinklers belong to the very lowest caste; the same caste as the garbage collectors and the coolies that mend the roads and sweep the sidewalks, but they are stalwart fellows, much superior to the higher class physically, and as they wear very little clothing everybody can see their perfect anatomy and shapely outlines.

on Occurrences 2%

Contending as he did with the pompous, dogmatic mechanism worship of the new scientific clique of his time on the one hand, and the superstitions of the old theological caste on the other, he had to fight the hardest kind of guerrilla warfare in defense of the Purpose of Life.

within Occurrences 1%

"We find castes within castes," says Sir Monier Williams (153), "so that even the Brahmans are broken up and divided into numerous races, which again are subdivided into numerous tribes, families, or sub-castes," and all these, he adds, "do not intermarry."

about Occurrences 1%

Ask any common labourer or one of the low castes about immortality, about salvation, about the higher virtues, about the yearnings and wishes that every immortal soul at periods has, and he will simply tell you 'Khoda jane, hum greel admi,' i.e. 'God knows; I am only a poor man!'

without Occurrences 1%

The maharaja has broken caste without suffering any disadvantage, and has discovered that other considerations are more important.

above Occurrences 1%

None but the mind of a poet could imagine such outcasts venturing to raise their thoughts to the beauty of a Brahmin's daughter; and a touching tale in such creative fancy, no doubt, it would make, for, from their outward appearances, I do not perceive why they should not be endowed with minds as sensitive at least as those of the castes above them.

against Occurrences 1%

She avoided him; she treated him to a short season of disdain; she did all in her power to rebuke his effronteryand then in the end she surrendered to the overpowering vanity which confronts all women who put the pride of caste against the pride of conquest.

amongst Occurrences 1%

I was told, however, that even these girls show a kind of pride of caste amongst one another.

at Occurrences 1%

"I am, too," he said in that attractive manner which sets people of similar caste at ease with one another.

before Occurrences 1%

He is invoked by Hindus of all sects and castes before undertaking any business of importance.

below Occurrences 1%

It is not that people are unwilling to condescend to the castes below them.

between Occurrences 1%

Whereas our business is to keep aloof from the world, to maintain a barrier of caste between ourselves and other men, for they must not suspect that we are as imperfect as theythat we have the same appetites and passions, the same defects and meannesses.

outside Occurrences 1%

There is a spirit of caste outside the Hindu sphere.

toward Occurrences 1%

The hatred of the serf-mastering caste toward their new ruler grew blacker and blacker; but he never flinched.

Which preposition to use with  caste