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Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family Businesses

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2017
This article explores the social reproductive roles performed by elite “upper”-caste Aggarwal women in family businesses in Delhi. With the substantialization of caste, there is an increase in heterogeneities within caste groups.
Ujithra Ponniah
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Caste in Britain: Public Consultation on Caste and Equality Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The United Kingdom government has started a public consultation on caste in Great Britain and the equality law with the official response expected soon. British Dalits have demanded protection in legislation from caste discrimination for many years, but ...
Waughray, A
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Dalits and Discourses of Anti-Caste Movements in Kerala, India

open access: yes, 2023
This article locates various historical discourses of anti-caste imaginaries and articulations that are imprinted in the historical past of Kerala society.
Rajesh Komath, K.S. Madhavan
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Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism

open access: yesLeiden Journal of International Law
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Rishabh Bajoria
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‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

open access: yes, 2023
Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian ...
Hole, Durga, Kisana, Ravikant
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Reproduction of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions

open access: yesCaste
This article, embedded in empirical work in two colleges of a central university in Delhi, focuses on how caste privilege is legitimized and reproduced within elite higher educational institutions.
Ravneet Param
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The CAST experiment.

open access: yesJournal of Physics: Conference Series, 2008
CAST (CERN Axion Solar Telescope) is a helioscope looking for axions coming from the solar core to the Earth. The experiment, located at CERN, is based on the Primakoff effect and uses a magnetic field of 9 Tesla provided by a decommissioned LHC magnet.
Ruz, J.   +72 more
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"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03.
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Ajit Zacharias
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy [PDF]

open access: yes
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs.
Siddique, Zahra
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Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village [PDF]

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We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based ...
Sanditov, Bulat, Arora, Saurabh
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