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Towards a Multispecies Approach to Caste in Sinhala Society: Interspecies Dynamics between Cinnamon and the Salagama People

Caste
This article deploys a multispecies perspective to understand the role of human and non-human actors shaping the Sinhala caste system in Sri Lanka. Apart from human interlocutors, certain animal species (e.g.
Kalinga Tudor Silva
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Continuous Casting [PDF]

Metals, 2019
Continuous casting is a process whereby molten metal is solidified into a semi-finished billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in finishing mills; it is the most frequently used process to cast not only steel, but also aluminum and copper alloys [...]
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Perspectives on Caste and Militant Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The LTTE and Resistance Against Vellalah Hegemony

Caste
By analyzing the intersection of caste and militant Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka, this article considers whether the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a transformative force that disrupted the caste order, including the hegemony of the ...
Bahirathy Jeeweshwara Rasanen
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The Visible ‘Caste Gaps’ amid an ‘Invisible’ Caste System in West Bengal, India: A Study of Discrimination in Bengali Society

Caste
The invisibility of the caste system in Bengal is so firmly ingrained in the psyche of the upper-caste Bengali Hindu population that any acknowledgement of the same by the bhadralok class appears to be a pipe dream.
Manas Patra
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A Study Of Caste Dynamics In Bihar: Casting And Casting Out

, 2015
Indian Caste System and Its Dynamics.
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When Two Southerners Meet on a Tram in Gothenburg, Sweden

Parse Journal, 2022
This text navigates the tensions, contradictions and common ground around the question of justice and violence read through the respective practices of two PhD candidates at HDK-Valand.
Nkule Mabaso, Ram Krishna Ranjan
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Rethinking Studying Up: Caste, Positionality, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Who holds epistemic authority to study whom, and what unspoken imperatives—social, institutional, or cultural—shape our research choices? This paper interrogates the challenges of research in a caste-stratified society, where caste functions not just as ...
Madhuri Kamtam
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The Waning Caste System of The Gambia

Turkish Academic Research Review
This study examines how caste shapes social relations in The Gambia through the lens of Blalock’s (1967) Group Threat Hypothesis and assesses the extent to which Western education can be credited with addressing caste-related concerns.
Akpojevbe Omasanjuwa
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The Psychomachia of Caste and Psychoanalysis in India

Caste
Psychoanalytic theory has been invoked to study gender, race, and colonialism, especially Indian postcoloniality, and its claims to cross-cultural relevance have also been interrogated in Indian scholarship from these perspectives.
Divya Dwivedi
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From the Tea Gardens to the Clinic: Adibaxi Health in Assam and Caste and Indigeneity in Indian Modernity, India

Caste
The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity.
Sanghamitra Das
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