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Cultural Ambivalence: A Socio-Historical Account of the Berava Caste of Southern Sri Lanka

One of the essential features of the caste systems of South Asia is its link with occupational activity. In the Sri Lankan caste system, which evolved out a system of feudal service tenures linked to royal courts and Buddhist temples, the link with ...
Bob Simpson, Premakumara de Silva
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Caste and class in higher education enrolments : challenges in conceptualising social inequality

, 2020
The National Sample Survey 2014 data is used to explore the character of class inequality, over and beyond that of caste. The caste break-up of various social classes suggests that caste inequalities are greater amongst the more educated classes ...
Madan, Amman
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Socio-Economic Status or Caste? Inequities in Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India [PDF]

, 2016
Many inequities in the coverage of essential interventions in pregnancy, childbirth and newborn and child health, especially those that require contact with the health system, persist within countries.
Gautham, Meenakshi
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Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking

Disasters are often constructed as unique and extraordinary events. Such accounts ignore the social histories and inequalities that render specific communities/regions prone to disaster.
Dixit, Anukriti, Banday, Muneeb Ul Lateef   +1 more
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Diverse coping strategies for food insecurity: A qualitative study of economically precarious households in India in the context of COVID-19. [PDF]

PLoS One
Vasudev C, Mishra S, Rathi A, Fledderjohann J, Vellakkal S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cestode infection is linked to transcriptional shifts in neuropeptide signalling and caste-specific ageing pathways in a social insect. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Blasi G, Schwolow K, Darras H, Foitzik S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Maternal caregiving burdens and child well-being in an urban informal settlement: an intersectional study of marginalized caste mothers in Chennai, India. [PDF]

Front Pediatr
Ananthi M, Prabakar S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sharply Contrasting Chemotypes Coincide with Aggression and Divergence in Cryptic African Carpenter Ant Populations. [PDF]

J Chem Ecol
Pohl M, Laukamp T, Caspers M, Paczkowski S, Buellesbach J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Epigenetic aging and blood based neurodegeneration markers in LASI-DAD. [PDF]

J Prev Alzheimers Dis
Kim JK, Arpawong TE, Thyagarajan B, Smith JA, Vivek S, Ratliff S, Dey S, Lee J, Crimmins EM.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Correlates of hysterectomy in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. [PDF]

J Glob Health
Varghese JS, Desai S, Debnath S, Paul SB, Mishra GD.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source