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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

वंचित वर्ग

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vanchit varg

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Underclass/ˈʌn.dɚˌklæs/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"समाज सुधारक वंचित वर्ग के उत्थान के लिए काम करते हैं।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The lowest social stratum in a society, consisting of people who are persistently poor, unemployed, and socially marginalized.

    "Economic restructuring has left a growing underclass struggling to find stable employment."
  2. 2

    A group of people outside or beneath the traditional class structure, often experiencing systemic deprivation.

    "Sociologists study the structural factors that trap certain communities within the urban underclass."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in English as a compound of 'under-' (denoting lower position or status) and 'class' (social grouping), emerging in the mid-20th century. Initially used in economic contexts, it gained widespread sociological prominence in the 1970s and 1980s to describe a segment of the population persistently trapped in poverty and socially marginalized from mainstream society.

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