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Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities

open access: yesCaste, 2023
Caste is a complex ontological construction. Despite several anti-caste movements and constitutional provisions, caste exists in the Indian psyche as part of everyday life.
Gaurav J. Pathania   +4 more
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“When I tell them my caste, silence descends”: Caste-based Discrimination among the Nepali Diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA

open access: yesCaste, 2022
Recent cases of caste-based workplace discrimination in Silicon Valley in the United States (US) have highlighted the practice of caste-based discrimination in the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area. Most documentation of caste-based discrimination in diaspora
Prem Pariyar   +2 more
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La Revue INRA Productions Animales a 20 ans

open access: yesINRAE Productions Animales, 2008
C’est en juin 1984, au cours d’une réunion du Bureau des Productions Animales de l’INRA consacrée aux publications, qu’est née l’idée d’une revue de transfert dans le domaine animal.
J.M. PEREZ, M.H. FARCE, D. CASTE
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Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2015
After the British conquered Bengal and eventually the whole of India,they set out to administer the colony. In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the relation of people to land for production (and not for ...
Ramkrishna Mukherjee
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Caste and Consequences

open access: yesCaste, 2020
Caste, a social institution in India, has significant implications on social legislations, affirmative action and group-specific development policies. In the modern society, the traditional caste structure however continues to nurture the unequal social ...
G. C. Pal
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Changing characteristics of the caste system in India

open access: yesӘл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2021
In India, during the last three decades, the caste system’s characteristics have changed significantly. The caste system has never been an uncontested reality in India.
D.A.P. Sharma
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Upregulation of Hox genes leading to caste-specific morphogenesis in a termite

open access: yesEvoDevo, 2023
Background In social insects, interactions among colony members trigger caste differentiation with morphological modifications. In termite caste differentiation, caste-specific morphologies (such as mandibles in soldiers, genital organs in reproductives ...
Kohei Oguchi, Toru Miura
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Caste-specific phenotypic plasticity of Asian weaver ants: Revealing the allometric and non-allometric component of female caste system of Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by using geometric morphometrics

open access: yesSociobiology, 2021
In eusocial insects, particularly in ants, caste differentiation is extremely complicated when we rely on traditional taxonomy. In most species, the worker caste does not display any distinct morphological characters neither the caste’s central division ...
K. V. Mahima   +5 more
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Maadhuri Hireker: Education, Emancipation, and an Ambedkarite-Buddhist Woman’s Journey from India to the UK

open access: yesCaste
This article presents a transnational oral history of Maadhuri Hireker (b. 1940), a first-generation educated Ambedkarite woman whose life traverses rural Maharashtra, the historic moment of Buddhist conversion in 1956, and the institutionalization of ...
GAURAV J. PATHANIA, Sat Pal Muman
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Madurai Formula Films: Caste Pride and Politics in Tamil Cinema

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2017
Whilst much has been written about the significance of caste in Tamil politics, there has been less attention paid to the ways in which caste is played out in the cultural sphere.
Karthikeyan Damodaran, Hugo Gorringe
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