Word: vaishya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride was a Brahman, highest of the four Hindu castes.* The Gandhis belong to the Vaishya or shopkeeper caste. While many marvelled, Devadas Gandhi knelt before a roaring fire in a ceremony of purification, was married by a saffron-robed priest who mumbled that henceforth he would be entitled to worship and act as a Brahman. Hindus in the audience knew that no matter what the priest said Devadas Gandhi will always be considered a Vaishya...
...Brahman, the intellectual; Kshatrya, the soldier; Vaishya, the merchant; Sudra, the laborer. The Untouchables, fifth social class, are not strictly a caste...
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