lose caste

Verb

 * 1)  To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth.
 * 2) * 1808, “Moral Character of the Hindoos, in Their Interior Department” in The Literary Panorama, London: C.Taylor, Volume3, p.141,
 * Attachment 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.
 * 1) * 1857, D. Urquhart, , London: D.Bryce, “Mr. Disraeli’s Speech Reviewed,” p.14,
 * I 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
 * 1) To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.
 * 1) To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.