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Father’s social and economic position has strongest impact on age at menarche in girls from Central India

Anthropological Review, 2019
We assessed the impact of socio-economic factors on age at menarche among the adolescent female population from the state of Madhya Pradesh, Central India.
Kosińska Magdalena, Liczbińska Grażyna, Gautam Rajesh K., Dubey Pragya, Ahirwar Ajay Kumar, Chaurasia Anurag   +5 more
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Socio-religious desegregation in an immediate postwar town

Carnets de Géographes, 2011
The cease-fire agreement of 2002 between the Sri Lankan state and the separatist movement of Liberalisation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was an opportunity to analyze the role of war and then of the cessation of fighting as a potential process of ...
Delon Madavan
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Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles

, 2019
Discriminatory caste attitudes currently stigmatize millions of Indians, subjecting individuals to prejudice in all aspects of life. Governmental incentives and societal movements have attempted to counter these attitudes, yet accurate measurements of ...
Jurgens, David, Mahalingam, Ramaswami, Rajadesingan, Ashwin   +2 more
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Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism

Leiden Journal of International Law
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Rishabh Bajoria
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Cultures of caste and rural development in the social network of a south Indian village [PDF]

, 2015
Cultures of caste in much of rural India have become entangled with institutions of rural development. In community-driven development, emphasis on “local resource persons” and “community spokespersons” has created new opportunities for brokerage and ...
Baviskar A., Bokil M., Dumont L., Fuller C. J., Gupta D., Johnson C., Karamsi S. R., Latour B., Mines D. P., Mische A., Moffat M., Mosse D., Mosse D., Natarajan B., Prasad S., Simmel G., Spillman L., Still C., Swaminathan P.   +18 more
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Travelling Through Caste

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
With its peculiar caste system, India is considered the most stratified of all known societies in human history. This system is ‘peculiar’ as it divides human beings into higher and lower castes and this division is backed by certain religious sanctions ...
Raj Kumar
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Matters of Gender and Social Disparities Regarding Postnatal Care Use Among Nepalese Women: A Cross-Sectional Study in Morang District

Health Equity, 2023
Objective: The study compares the uses of postnatal care (PNC) and women's autonomy gradients across social caste and used intersectionality concepts to estimate odds ratio of women's autonomy and social caste on complete PNC.
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Marginal Accuracy of Castings Fabricated with Ringless Casting Investment System and Metal Ring Casting Investment System: A Comparative Study

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice, 2016
ABSTRACT Background The thermal expansion of the investment can be restricted by the metal casting ring because the thermal expansion of the ring is less than that of the investment. The ringless casting procedure is in use in clinical dentistry, though there is little scientific data to support its use in fixed partial dentures.
M, Kalavathi, Bhuvana, Sachin, B G, Prasanna, T V, Shreeharsha, B, Praveen, Mallikarjuna, Ragher   +5 more
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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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Rwanda, Burundi, and Their Ethnic Conflicts [PDF]

, 2000
This paper demonstrably dispels the assumption that ethnic conflict in Rwanda and Burundi is a chronic endemic phenomenon. It emphasizes the consolidation of the caste system during the colonial era, intra regional disparities within the two communities,
Isabirye, Stephen B., Mahmoudi, Kooros M.   +1 more
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