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Are female leaders good for education? : Evidence from India [PDF]
, 2007 This paper shows that the gender of politicians affects the educational levels of individuals who grow up in the districts where these politicians are elected. Increasing female political representation by 10 percentage points increases the probability
Clots-Figueras, Irma
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eThe Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2013 A book review of The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India by David ...
Bauman, Chad M
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Crossing boundaries : gender, caste and schooling in rural Pakistan [PDF]
Can communal heterogeneity explain persistent educational inequities in developing countries? The paper uses a novel data-set from rural Pakistan that explicitly recognizes the geographic structure of villages and the social makeup of constituent hamlets
Jacoby, Hanan G., Mansuri, Ghazala
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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The Caste Negotiations of Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) in Colonial Ceylon
CasteAnalyses involving Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) and his relationship to caste— rare enough as they are—often mirror conversations on the position of caste in Sri Lanka more generally.
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Caste in South Asia: From Ritual Hierarchy to Politics of Difference
Politeja, 2016 Caste has been in existence for centuries in South Asia, though its forms and contents vary across the region. Caste is a mode of power, a weapon of action and one of the criteria of making people’s collective identity within groups.
Madhusudan Subedi
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"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]
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.
Ajit Zacharias, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Book review of The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print. By Charu Gupta.
Robison, Claire C.
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