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Colonialism and Liberation: Ambedkar’s Quest for Distributive Justice [PDF]
, 1999 Ambedkar denounced caste system for violating the respect and dignity of the individual; yet his critique of caste-ridden society also foregrounds the limits of the theory and practice of citizenship and liberal politics in India ...
Verma, Vidhu
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Gender, caste, and public goods provision in Indian village governments: [PDF]
"This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on village governance and local public goods provision. Using data from 144 village-level governments in India's Tamil Nadu state, we examine whether the gender and caste of village government leaders ...
Gajwani, Kiran, Zhang, Xiaobo
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India [PDF]
This paper uses a unique data set from 5028 primary school children in rural India to examine whether the demographic interactions between students and teachers influence student outcomes and whether social distance between student and teacher ...
Geeta Kingdon, Shenila Rawal
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jamie Mayerfeld
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta +2 more
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CasteThe 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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Reaching Community Through School Going Children for Sickle Cell Disease in Zankhvav Village of Surat District, Western India [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives: The objective of the study was to explore a method to reach the community via school going adolescents for screening tribal people for Sickle Cell disease.
Bansal, R +4 more
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