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‘I’m an Upper Caste Myself’: Caste Identities in Negotiating Casteism

Caste
Caste is the single most important determinant of life outcomes in India (Pathania et al., 2023; Teltumbde, 2022; Yengde, 2019). Caste is pervasive—in our homes, friendships, places of worship, love and marriage, clothing, language, food, and more. Caste
Rahul Sambaraju
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Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India [PDF]

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the ...
Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak, Abhijit Banerjee, Jeanne Lafortune   +3 more
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JEB-Perrard-2012-Caste-dimorphism

, 2012
Coordinates of the 19 landmarks from the right forewing of specimens used in the study, in a .NTS format.
Claire Villemant (553163), Michel Baylac (163038), Villemant, Claire, Baylac, Michel, James M. Carpenter (198582), Carpenter, James M., Adrien Perrard (553156), Perrard, Adrien   +7 more
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Social Psychological Explorations of Caste: Unravelling Challenges and Discovering Opportunities

Caste
Despite our expectations that technological advancements, globalization, and the ensuing modernity and equality would strip away the relevance of caste hierarchies, caste remains a significant aspect that drives Indians’ social experiences.
Iram Fatima, Maria Zafar, M. Rejoyson Thangal   +2 more
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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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We Are Conscious of Caste, but Do We Live Our Lives through It? A Case Study of Gendered Caste Marginality

Religions
Despite the strict rejection of casteism by the Sikh faith, caste-based hierarchies are still a prevalent factor amongst Sikh diasporas within the UK. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork amongst women whose caste is considered to occupy a lower status,
Parvinder Kaur
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On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
Any attempt to understand Indian society through the scholarship on caste confronts us with a large number of problems. Scholars of the last 150 years have routinely observed and even criticised writings on caste for these problems.
Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan
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Caste Matters in Public Policy Issues and Perspectives

, 2022
Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline, castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance.

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Review of Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity by Nishant Upadhyay (University of Illinois Press)

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Nishant Upadhyay’s Indians on Indian Lands bridges settler colonial studies and South Asian diasporic studies to examine the complex, often contradictory position of dominant-caste Indian diasporas on Indigenous lands in Canada.
Tapaswinee Mitra
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Caste hegemony within Christianity in Bama’s Karukku: reproducing social spaces of symbolic power and symbolic violence

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Symbolic powers govern societies in subtle ways. Pierre Bourdieu defines symbolic power in Language and Symbolic Power as the power ‘to ‘consecrate and constitute groups’. Such symbolic powers perpetrate symbolic violence wherein one class reinforces its
Pallavi Thakur, Meghna Mathur
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