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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Lichen bleaching as a response to long‐term experimental warming in the High Arctic
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Lichens are an important component of Arctic ecosystems. Studies have indicated a decline in the abundance of Arctic lichens during recent decades, which is often attributed to competitive pressure from vascular plants.
Jiří Šubrt +3 more
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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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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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Recasting the Brahmin: Martin Wickramasinghe and the Epistemic Critique of Caste
CasteThe dominant public perception is that caste is a matter of minor and diminishing significance in Sri Lanka, especially for the Sinhalese, who form the island’s ethnic majority.
Praveen Tilakaratne
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [PDF]
, 2010 Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology.
Fuller, C. J., Narasimhan, Haripriya
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‘I’m an Upper Caste Myself’: Caste Identities in Negotiating Casteism
CasteCaste 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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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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Social networks and employment in India [PDF]
We investigate the influence of social networks on employment. Using data from India, we estimate the effect of caste based social networks on employment.
Tushar K. Nandi
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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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