Associations of womens position in the household and food insecurity with family planning use in Nepal. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Women in Nepal have low status, especially younger women in co-resident households. Nepal also faces high levels of household food insecurity and malnutrition, and stagnation in uptake of modern family planning methods.
Diamond-Smith, Nadia +4 more
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Symbolic Boundaries and Moral Demands of Dalit Student Activism
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2019 Emerging literature on Dalit student activism explores the ways Dalit students position themselves with regard to other student groups and the broader caste structure.
Kristina Garalytė
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From elite to subaltern : stages in the adoption of the English language in India [PDF]
, 2012 Probal Dasgupta, in his book, 'The Otherness of English', posits that "the communication matrix of India identifies for English in-India the role of an "auntie" who is around, but not one of us." Despite early reservations about the adaptability of the ...
Cowaloosur, Vedita
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Political Consciousness Among Dalit and Non-Dalit
International Journal of Social Sciences and ManagementThis study examines caste-based discrimination against Dalits in Bharatpur 12, Chitwan district, Nepal, focusing on their social, economic, and political conditions. Data were collected through a survey of Dalit and non-Dalit households using structured questionnaires. The results showed that most household heads were male.
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Welfare Stigma Allowing for Psychological and Cultural Effects. An Agent-Based Simulation Study [PDF]
We investigate the effects of income support on unemployment and welfare dynamics when stigma is attached to welfare provision. Stigma has been modelled in the literature as a cost of entry into welfare. Allowing for psychological factors, we assume that
Dalit Contini, Matteo Richiardi
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Australian Journal of Environmental EducationThe Sundarbans in the short stories by Dalit writer Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is not some geographical setting but is instead a living environmental being that reinvents the relationship between man and the nonhuman world.
Ritam Dutta
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Elite dominance and under-investment in mass education: Disparity in the social development of the Indian states, 1960-92 [PDF]
, 2006 Literacy rates continue to be strikingly low among women and low caste population compared to the general population not only in any Indian state, but more so in the worst performing ones.
Ghosh, S, Pal, S
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Sickle Cell Disease: A Review Article on Social Pathology, Social Determinants, and Poverty
CasteSickle cell disease (SCD) is a complex genetic condition intertwined with social justice issues. Despite continuous medical advancements, addressing the deep-seated disparities and historical inequalities that disproportionately affect marginalized ...
Sunil Khaparde
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Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011) [PDF]
, 2013 Chakraborty, Soumitra
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The Dalit Identity: Interrogating Dalit Literature and the need for Dalit Women’s Autobiography
International Journal of English Literature and Social SciencesThe need for a Dalit feminist position is deeply rooted in the structural and generational experience of discrimination that Dalit women face—both within and outside the broader Dalit movement and Indian feminism. As Bama Faustina Susairaj highlights, the Dalit identity carries a stigma that persists regardless of social mobility, education, or ...
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