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, 2016 In standard economics, individuals are rational actors and economic forces undermine institutions that impose large inefficiencies. The persistence of the caste system is evidence of the need for psychologically more realistic models of decision-making in economics.
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The labor/land ratio and India's caste system [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor.
Duleep, Harriet
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste
Theatrum Historiae, 2016 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 ...
Marianne Keppens
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Space and Culture, India, 2015 In developing countries, seasonal labour migration from rural to urban or from backward to developed region is a household livelihood strategy to cope with poverty.
Dr Archana K Roy +2 more
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Caste as a Socio-Psychological Construct: Theoretical and Empirical Expositions
CasteCaste in India is intricately and inevitably linked to multiple issues specifically in the context of intergroup relations and behaviours, and social inequality.
G. C. Pal
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Cultural Ambivalence: A Socio-Historical Account of the Berava Caste of Southern Sri Lanka
CasteOne of the essential features of the caste systems of South Asia is its link with occupational activity. In the Sri Lankan caste system, which evolved out a system of feudal service tenures linked to royal courts and Buddhist temples, the link with ...
Bob Simpson, Premakumara de Silva
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, 2011 The mass incarceration of poor people of color represents a new American caste system that is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against
Michelle Alexander
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Caste or qualification? Chaitanya Vaishnava Discussions about Brahmanas in Colonial India
Theatrum Historiae, 2016 Despite the general conviction about functioning of caste system in India we are far from understanding even its basic units, called varna and jati. If many scholars are not able to provide convincing solutions to problems with definition of caste and ...
Martin Fárek
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Gender Equality Results Case Study - Nepal: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project [PDF]
, 2015 Development Aims and Impacts. The Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project aimed at expanding the coverage of improved water supply and sanitation facilities to poor and remote areas, and improving health and hygiene practices related ...
Asian Development Bank
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Engaging with ‘Caste’: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Reception
Space and Culture, India, 2020 Caste has been a persisting form of stratification that continues to evade equality and social justice in Indian society. Among the routes to tackle the menace of caste has been the education system. In this regard, the National Curriculum Framework 2005
Devika Mittal
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