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Jai Birdi : Resistance to Caste-based Discrimination

open access: yes, 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 ...
Birdi, Jai   +2 more
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Financial Inclusion for Smallholders: Integrating a Resource Nexus Approach Into Agricultural Finance Systems

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers remain structurally excluded from the current agricultural finance system. Existing research in this area examines financial inclusion through fragmented environmental, social, and economic lenses, limiting system‐level understanding.
Vaibhav Aggarwal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Ambivalence: A Socio-Historical Account of the Berava Caste of Southern Sri Lanka

open access: yesCaste
One 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
doaj   +1 more source

Indian Caste System [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Vijay Puli : Caste Discrimination in the Everyday

open access: yes, 2022
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 ...
Yengde, Suraj   +2 more
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Equity in Energy—A Critical Analysis of GESI and Energy Justice Narratives in Energy Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global energy sector is transitioning from conventional energy sources to cleaner and more sustainable alternatives; however, persistent structural and social barriers continue to undermine equity and inclusivity within this transition. This study examines how Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Energy Justice (EJ) principles ...
Tharindu Dissanayake   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste or qualification? Chaitanya Vaishnava Discussions about Brahmanas in Colonial India

open access: yesTheatrum 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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From the Tea Gardens to the Clinic: Adibaxi Health in Assam and Caste and Indigeneity in Indian Modernity, India

open access: yesCaste
The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity.
Sanghamitra Das
doaj   +1 more source

"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03.
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Ajit Zacharias
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Investigating the Digital Effective Criteria for Sustainable Construction in Norway

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The construction industry generates substantial amounts of waste and contributes to increasing the amount of waste in landfills. To reach the Sustainability Development Goals, the construction industry needs to further develop waste management (WM) strategies.
Rashid Maqbool, Therese Heidelberg
wiley   +1 more source

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