outcaste

plural outcastes

1. An outcast from the caste system.

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   […] the essay interprets the oral traditions of the outcaste Bhuinyas who have traditionally worked as the kamias or dependent labourers of maliks or upper-caste landlords in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India. […] But the kamias' ties with the maliks predated the designation of the relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.

   1991, Gyan Prakash, “Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India”, in Douglas Haynes, Gyan Prakash, editors, Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 145

2. In caste-based societies, such as Indian or medieval Japan, an individual or group of people who do not belong to any officially recognized caste.

present singular third person outcastes · participle present outcasting · participle present outcasteing · participle past outcasted · past outcasted

1. transitiveTo expel from a caste.