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Indian Caste System

T SOC 165 A Au 24: Introduction To Sociology: Developing The Sociological ImaginationIndia has a long History of the social caste system. While officially abolished, its influence persists, shaping access to education, jobs, and social mobility.
Hussain, Allia
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Caste in Britain: Socio-Legal Review [PDF]

, 2014
Meena Dhanda was the Principle Investigator of the consortium of experts which produced the report.Background and aims of the project In April 2013, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act was enacted.
Keane, David, Mosse, D, Whittle, Stephen, Waughray, A, Dhanda, Meena, Waughray, Annapurna, Mosse, David, Green, Roger, Dhanda, M   +8 more
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Creative writing on gender and caste in Dalit autobiographies and biographies: a view from within

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This paper critically examines the oeuvre of Kaushalya Baisantry and Sharmila Rege, focusing on their creative writing, Twice Cursed (orig. Dohra Abhishaap, originally published in 1999) and Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s ...
Md Moshabbir Alam
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Musahar Toli or Rukanpura: an Intersection of Caste and Gentrification

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This essay explores the intersection of caste, space, and gentrification in the urban transformation of Musahar Toli, a neighborhood in Patna, India. It examines how the state’s provision of permanent housing in the 1990s reshaped Musahar Toli from a ...
Pranjal
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Caste, local networks and lucrative jobs: Evidence from rural Nepal [PDF]

We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to lucrative international migrant jobs and attractive government employment.
Gaute Torsvik, Vegard Iversen, Magnus Hatlebakk   +2 more
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Caste Census Data for a Just Republic

India’s return to caste enumeration after a 94-year hiatus is not merely a statistical event but a watershed in the nation’s unfinished struggle for social justice.
Ranjan, Nitin, Singh, Yasha
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Caste, Space, and Retail Religiosity in Tamil Toronto

This paper is focused on ritually organized caste practices in the Canadian Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. It describes how Sri Lankan Tamils in Toronto, Canada, who in some ways have tried to turn their backs on caste (especially in the second and third ...
Mark P. Whitaker
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The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion, and Economic Status in India

This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India’s Scheduled Castes (SC)and Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Borooah, Vani, Iyer, Sriya, Dubey, Amaresh   +2 more
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City and sexuality: An auto-ethnographic storytelling of caste, class and queerness in Delhi

, 2020
What makes a city liveable? Often we are situated at various margins of a city—social, spatial and sexual. This paper uses auto-ethnographic storytelling of social-sexual differences that produce our everyday geographies.
Borisa, Dhiren
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Corporative Capitalism: Civil Society and the Politics of Accumulation in Small Town India [PDF]

Using the analytical framework of social structures of accumulation, the economic politics of local urban civil-social organisations and their impact on capital, class and the business economy is examined.
Elisabetta Basile and Barbara Harriss-White
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