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Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014) [PDF]
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2016 We contextualise Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj, and Kumar’s (2014) paper within a broader literature on caste and collective mobilisation. Cotterill and colleagues’ paper represents a fresh and timely attempt to make sense of the persistence of caste ...
Yashpal A. Jogdand +2 more
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The aryans and the ancient system of caste [PDF]
, 2015 Over the last century or two, the dominant accounts of the caste system have looked for its roots in the ancient history of India. More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the ...
Keppens, Marianne
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Voicing the Subaltern in African-American and Dalit Women's Autobiographies
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2021 This paper aims to analyse two major autobiographies of Dalit women’s literature and African American women’s writing – Karukku (1992) by Bama Faustina and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet A.
Isabel Beltrán
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Sociobiology, 2021 In eusocial insects, particularly in ants, caste differentiation is extremely complicated when we rely on traditional taxonomy. In most species, the worker caste does not display any distinct morphological characters neither the caste’s central division ...
K. V. Mahima +5 more
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Some Theoretical Considerations on Caste
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2014 Caste as a system of social stratification was an encompassing system in the past. There was reciprocal system of exchange goods and services. With time, occupation and mode of generation of livelihood of various caste groups changed, and the traditional
Madhusudan Subedi
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Otras Indias: Lo que pueden mostrar las ONGs
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2017 Un diálogo con la directora y fundadora de la ONG española Akshy India, Raquel Mason Palomeque.
Jorge Diego Sánchez
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Religions, 2022 This article explains how dramatic theology can discern, evaluate, and interpret critically different cultural institutions and bring forward the uniqueness of Christian revelation in a pluralistic world.
George Thomas Kuzhippallil
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A Tale Begun in Other Days: Understanding Caste as Social Exclusion in India [PDF]
, 2011 Caste has remained a subject of intense academic inquiry. Lately, new discourses have emerged under the thematic of ‘social exclusion’ that simply extend the scope of academic discussion on caste.
Negi, Prashant
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Complex hybrid origin of genetic caste determination in harvester ants [PDF]
, 2003 Caste differentiation and division of labour are the hallmarks of insect societies and at the root of their ecological success. Kin selection predicts that caste determination should result from environmentally induced differences in gene expression, a ...
A Buschinger +21 more
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A High Soldier Proportion Encouraged the Greater Antifungal Immunity in a Subterranean Termite
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Termites possess a mighty social immune system, serving as one of the key obstacles to controlling them biologically. However, the dynamic mechanism coordinating the social immunologic defense and caste distribution of the termites remains elusive.
Wenhui Zeng +5 more
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