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Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA

BMC Genetics, 2006
Background India is a country with enormous social and cultural diversity due to its positioning on the crossroads of many historic and pre-historic human migrations.
Reddy B Mohan, Bhaskar Lakkakula VKS, Singh Vijay, Chaubey Gyaneshwer, Thangaraj Kumarasamy, Thanseem Ismail, Reddy Alla G, Singh Lalji   +7 more
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In Our Village

, 2013
While in the village of Banjar Wani I had the opportunity to meet Kedek and his father Pak Sura. They took me into their home and showed me what an average Balinese house for someone in the Sudra caste looks like. The Sudra is considered to be the lowest
Mako, Carolyn T.
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Buddhism: an atheistic and anti-caste religion? : Modern ideology and historical reality of the ancient Indian Bauddha Dharma [PDF]

, 2001
The historian has to safeguard the strangeness of the past. Therefore, religio-historical research has to scrutinise the reconstruction of the real history of religions by religious ideologies of the present.
Weber, Edmund
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(Re)making menstrual hygiene discourses in India

Tapuya
The exploration of menstrual hygiene management through the lens of feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) reveals complex intersections between culture, science, and politics.
Amisha K. Gopee
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The Caste Connection. On the Sacred Foundations of Social Hierarchy

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
Today, some commentators argue that the caste system in India is founded in Hinduism; others deny this in the case. This article argues that we do not possess any conceptual apparatus to address this question today, because it was originally raised and ...
Jakob De Roover, Sarah Claerhout
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Dominance and retaliation in the informal structure of authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar [PDF]

, 2006
In post-independence democratic India several measures have been initiated in order to bring the marginalised and depressed sections of its population into the mainstream of development. While some of these measures have yielded positive results, several
Chaubey, Rakesh
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Reinterpreting Buddhism: Ambedkar on the Politics of Social Action. [PDF]

, 2010
B R Ambedkar’s reinterpretation of Buddhism gives us an account of action that is based on democratic politics of contest and resistance.
Verma, Vidhu
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Plasticity in Caste-Fate Determination During the Adult Stage in Temperate Polistes Wasps

Insects
The reproductive division of labor is a fundamental characteristic of eusociality; thus, understanding the caste determination system underlying the reproductive division of labor would shed more light on the evolution of eusociality.
Hideto Yoshimura, Ken Sasaki
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A Rapid Assessment of Bonded Labour in Hazardous Industries in Pakistan: Glass Bangle-Making, Tanneries, and Construction [PDF]

, 2004
This working paper is one of a series of Rapid Assessments of bonded labor in Pakistan, each of which examines a different economic sector. The aim of these studies is to inform the implementation of the Government of Pakistan’s National Policy and Plan ...
InFocus Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, International Labour Office   +1 more
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The Role of the Catholic Church in Establishing the Portuguese Colonial Empire in India in the first half of the 16th century

RUDN Journal of World History, 2012
The article deals with the role of the Catholic Church in the context of Portuguese colonial policy in India and describes the methods of Christianizing the local population. The problem of interaction between the Hindu and Christian religious systems is
O Leonidovna Solodkova
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