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Casting and Casteing Indian Diplomacy

open access: yesDiplomatica, 2023
Abstract In this essay, I look at a curious intersection – the emergence of Indian diplomacy in the interwar era and the end of indentured labor. A genealogical reading suggests that Indian diplomacy takes “birth” primarily to articulate the political and civic rights of the new, seemingly upper caste Indian, in contrast to the lower caste “coolie” of ...
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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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Sex Ratio and Sexual Dimorphism in \u3ci\u3eFormica Exsectoides\u3c/i\u3e, the Allegheny Mound Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We excavated 66 mounds from 6 populations of Formica exsectoides in Michigan jack pine, collecting sexual caste pupae for sex ratio estimates and measurement of dimorphism.
Bristow, C. M, Rowe, H. C
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Gender, Caste and Subjectivity: Revisiting the #MeToo Movement in India [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2023
The #MeToo movement has claimed to mark a ‘new era in Indian feminism’ by introducing feminist articulations into the quotidian through the powerful use of social media.
Anandita Pan
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Marriage, Violence, and Choice:Understanding Dalit women's agency in rural Tamil Nadu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Literature on Dalit women largely deals with issues of violence and oppression based on intersections of class, caste and gender. Women’s bodies, sexuality and reproductive choices are linked to the ideological hegemony of the caste-gender nexus in India,
Rao, Nitya
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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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Hair casts

open access: yesIndian Dermatology Online Journal, 2014
Hair casts or pseudonits are circumferential concretions, which cover the hair shaft in such a way that, it could be easily removed. They are thin, cylindrical, and elongated in length. We present an unusual case of an 8-year-old girl presenting with hair casts. Occurrence of these is unusual, and they may have varied associations.
Sweta S Parmar   +2 more
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Cast syndrome [PDF]

open access: yesOxford Medical Case Reports, 2019
Cast syndrome, commonly known as superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction caused by compression of third part of duodenum from narrowing of the angle between superior mesenteric artery and abdominal aorta resulting in symptoms of duodenal outflow obstruction.
Madhu, Badireddy   +2 more
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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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