1. "A chair is not a caste."
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Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
2. "It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."
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Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
3. "I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
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Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
4. "if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin."
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John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor
5. "In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept."
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Khushwant Singh, Train To Pakistan
6. "in Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone’s name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village."
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Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
7. "You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all."
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Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
8. "If learning lessons from history is a mark of enlightenment, so is breaking free from it. This applies equally to every religion, caste, creed and group."
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S.L. Bhyrappa, Aavarana - The Veil
9. "Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key."
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Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
10. "As the Primal Being, Lord Shiva has neither ancestors, nor caste, neither guru, nor education, for he is the origin of all."
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Wolf-Dieter Storl, Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy