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Changing Names, Unchanging Caste and the Law in India
CasteIn recent times, several claims have been made before Indian courts to seek the change of one’s first name or surname. Such claims are being made for many different reasons out of which one reason stands out which is to hide one’s caste identity, namely
Ashna Singh
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy [PDF]
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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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how group inequality operates as a systemic constraint on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using regional data from 32 Mexican states between 2016 and 2022, gender‐disaggregated indicators were constructed across nine SDGs to explore cross‐goal interlinkages.
Aurelie Charles, Tom Winstone
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Mohan Lal : Activism against Caste in India and Canada
, 2021 This interview is part of the “Caste in Canada” oral history project. “Caste in Canada” comprises interviews with nineteen Canadians of Dalit background, documenting their histories, experiences, and understanding of the implications of caste in Canada ...
Lal, Mohan +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
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Cryptic successors unrevealed even by network analysis: A comparative study of two paper wasp species [PDF]
Network Biology, 2013 Understanding queen succession could be a key contribution to the better understanding of the origins and evolution of eusociality. In order to investigate the nature of organizational changes during queen succession, we analyzed two closely related ...
Anindita Bhadra, Ferenc Jordan
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A heritable component in sex ratio and caste determination in a
Frontiers in Zoology, 2009 Studies on sex ratios in social insects provide among the most compelling evidence for the importance of kin selection in social evolution. The elegant synthesis of Fisher's sex ratio principle and Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory predicts that colony-
Heinze Jürgen, Frohschammer Sabine
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“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain travel poorly across contexts ...
Timothy Hampson +2 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.This study investigates the breeding success of the critically endangered White‐rumped Vulture in Khaireni Community Forest, and examines local knowledge and perceptions toward its conservation. We found that 71% of active nests were successful, with breeding success significantly influenced by the proximity to carcass deposition sites.
Siddhartha Regmi +4 more
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