"lose caste" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "1808, “Moral Character of the Hindoos, in Their Interior Department” in The Literary Panorama, London: C. Taylor, Volume 3, p. 141,\nAttachment to a master, a family, or a government of a different religion, is that which cannot be produced in the mind of a Hindoo, while under the power of his Gooroo or his Depta. But if they lose caste, and embrace Christianity, not by force, but from pure conviction, they become other men."
        },
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          "text": "1857, D. Urquhart, The Rebellion of India, London: D. Bryce, “Mr. Disraeli’s Speech Reviewed,” p. 14,\nI would now ask what results could follow from enforcing on the Indian army the biting of a substance [i.e. cow grease on gunpowder cartridges] which they could not place between their lips without losing caste, and becoming objects of abhorrence to their co-religionaries, their friends and their families […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: QPD, Chapter 9.11, p. 577",
          "text": "An uncle of mine in Delhi thinks that I have become polluted, that I have lost caste by working with leather.",
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        "To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth."
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        "(South Asia) To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth."
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          "ref": "1952, Ralph Ellison, chapter 13, in Invisible Man, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 259",
          "text": "Why, with others present, it would be worse than if I had accused him of raping an old woman […] Bledsoe would disintegrate, disinflate! With a profound sigh he’d drop his head in shame. He’d lose caste. The weekly newspapers would attack him. […] His rivals would denounce him as a bad example for the youth.",
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        "To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation."
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          "text": "1808, “Moral Character of the Hindoos, in Their Interior Department” in The Literary Panorama, London: C. Taylor, Volume 3, p. 141,\nAttachment to a master, a family, or a government of a different religion, is that which cannot be produced in the mind of a Hindoo, while under the power of his Gooroo or his Depta. But if they lose caste, and embrace Christianity, not by force, but from pure conviction, they become other men."
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          "text": "1857, D. Urquhart, The Rebellion of India, London: D. Bryce, “Mr. Disraeli’s Speech Reviewed,” p. 14,\nI would now ask what results could follow from enforcing on the Indian army the biting of a substance [i.e. cow grease on gunpowder cartridges] which they could not place between their lips without losing caste, and becoming objects of abhorrence to their co-religionaries, their friends and their families […]"
        },
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