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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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Gender Equality Results Case Study - Nepal: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project [PDF]
, 2015 Development Aims and Impacts. The Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project aimed at expanding the coverage of improved water supply and sanitation facilities to poor and remote areas, and improving health and hygiene practices related ...
Asian Development Bank
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Strengthening women in wheat farming in India: Old challenges, new realities, new opportunities [PDF]
, 2020 This resource provides guidance for scientists, researchers, and rural advisory services in wheat-based systems on how to better target women in all communities and how to improve inclusion for everyone.
Badstue, Lone B. +3 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Creative writing on gender and caste in Dalit autobiographies and biographies: a view from within
Creativity StudiesThis paper critically examines the oeuvre of Kaushalya Baisantry and Sharmila Rege, focusing on their creative writing, Twice Cursed (orig. Dohra Abhishaap, originally published in 1999) and Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s ...
Md Moshabbir Alam
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’. ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’.
Ayushman Bhagat
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WHO IS THE IDENTIFIABLE VICTIM?--CASTE INTERACTS WITH SYMPATHY IN INDIA [PDF]
Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”-- people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the identified recipients, who generate more sympathy ...
ASHWINI DESHPANDE, DEAN SPEARS
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Mahatma Gandhi’s evaluation of the caste system as an element of the national independence movement in India [PDF]
, 1998 Castes still determine the social reality of India in many fields and affect politics more and more by functioning as vote banks which are decisive in elections.
Stein, Jürgen
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multinational enterprises (MNEs) leverage strategies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at the parent and subsidiary levels to build a reputation overseas. Nevertheless, institutional distance can weaken this connection in developing host countries, where MNEs face significant institutional voids.
Francisco Javier Forcadell +3 more
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Musahar Toli or Rukanpura: an Intersection of Caste and Gentrification
DastaveziThis essay explores the intersection of caste, space, and gentrification in the urban transformation of Musahar Toli, a neighborhood in Patna, India. It examines how the state’s provision of permanent housing in the 1990s reshaped Musahar Toli from a ...
Pranjal
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