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Weaker section of society

the Constitution, AIR 1988 MP 142 (144). [Constitution of India, Arts. 15(4) & 16(4)] Members of the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes have ordinarily been accepted as belonging to the weaker sections. Attempt to bring in the

Pitching

The act of throwing or casting a cast a pitch as wild pitching in baseball

Biradari

which does not mean merely members of the family of a particular person but the entire brotherhood or caste or tribe in a broader and general sense of a group of person of which some may or

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Every person

Every person, the phrase 'every person' comprehends all persons without limitation and irrespective of nationality, allegiance, rank, status caste, colour or creed, Mobarik Ali Ahmed v. State of Bombay, AIR 1957 SC 857 (870). (Indian Penal Code,

Usage

behaviour may generally be linked with human actions it is not the identify of the person vis-'-vis his caste which matters in discerning the contours of any 'usage'. 'Usage' is described as different from custom as there

Religious denomination

common religious tenets and the basic cord which connects them, should be religion and not merely, considerations of caste or community or societal status, Nallor Marthandam Vellalar v. Commissioner Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, (2003) 10 SCC

Bice viasya

Bice viasya, a man of the third Hindu caste who by birth is a trader or husbandman.

Pasupu Kumkuma

bequest of the testator's daughter respecting an absolute right and is not consistent with the conferment of limited caste, Venkatarama v. Rajyalakshmi, AIR 1960 AP 509. The word 'Pasupa Kumkuma' means conferring an absolute title, Sarupuri Narayanamma

Pariar, Pariah

Pariar, Pariah, an outcast or lowest caste (numbering some sixty millions) of the Hindoos, Indian.

Panjis

They are considered important in this community because questions of marriage (who may marry whom) and relationship and caste turn on them. Statements about pedigree are not therefore lightly made in such cases, Sitaji v. Bijendra Narain

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