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Deep Segregation: Informality, Trust and the Making of Discrimination in Markets

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article advances the concept of deep segregation to theorise how social exclusion is produced through the everyday organisation of market access rather than through spatial separation alone. Deep segregation refers to a relational and processual form of segregation constituted through segmented routes of access, intermediary networks and ...
Mohsin Alam Bhat, Asaf Ali Lone
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“The fear of water”:

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
The association of Water as a symbol of purity with the identity politics of the Dalits has often relegated their position to that of impure and untouchable. The tapestry of the Hindu religious texts has perceived water as a sacred entity, protected from
Manasi Patra
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Thathagata Buddha Songs: Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh

Caste, 2020
This paper intends to understand music as a form of cultural expression that has enabled mobility to Dalit-Bahujan and their cultural production. This cultural production can be seen in the form of popular songs that are widely circulated among Dalits ...
Kalyani Kalyani
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1595-1605, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
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Intestinal Parasitic Infections in Marginalized Populations: Prevalence and Risk Factors Among the Bantar Community of Sunsari, Nepal

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
Intestinal parasite infections remain highly prevalent (53.3%) among the Bantar community in Sunsari, Nepal, with Ascaris lumbricoides being the most common parasite and nail‐biting habit identified as a significant risk factor. The findings highlight the urgent need for targeted water, sanitation, hygiene, and health education interventions.
Mukesh Kumar Mahato, Jitendra Gautam, Niten Bharati, Darwin Niroula, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Tulsi Ram Gompo, Kishor Pandey   +6 more
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Challenging the Status Quo: Dalit Assertion and Persistent Inequality in Punjab

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Building on anthropological and sociological literature that has critically examined the “silent revolution” thesis, this paper challenges the notion that political and cultural assertion among the Dalit community signals revolutionary transformation ...
Satendra Kumar, Nicolas Martin
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An Exploration of the Aesthetics of Dalit Trauma in Mulk Raj Anand’s "Untouchable"

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2019
The Dalit community has suffered generational, multi-faceted and institutionalised discrimination as a result of the implementation of the Hindu caste system in the Indian society for religious and political reasons.
Bianca Cherechés
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Interview with Gowthama Sannah, Propaganda Secretary of the VCK, Chennai, 26th September 2012

The South Asianist, 2013
The compromised and ‘failing’ position of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Republican Party of India, led one eminent commentator to urge Dalit activists and scholars to “look south because Tamil Nadu may offer some important lessons” for Dalit politics
Hugo Gorringe
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தூர்வை புதினம் காட்டும் அடித்தள மக்களின் வாழ்வியல் நெருக்கடிகள் / Life and Crises of the Lower Stratum People in the Novel Thurvai [PDF]

Chenkaantal
The world exists because of the change of civilization and it cannot be considered as absolute truth. In the present day, modernism lends itself only to industrial and material development. Even if an individual stacks up a thousand studies, there will
திருமதி கி. முருகலட்சுமி / Mrs. K. Murugalakshmi
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Raving with Equality? On Protean Forms of Caste and Gender in the Women’s/Gender Studies Departments in India

Caste, 2023
Women’s and gender studies in the twenty-first century have transformed the question of theory and praxis across the globe. As a discipline, it is waging its struggle against diverse forms of power and patriarchy.
Smita M. Patil
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