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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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Challenging the Status Quo: Dalit Assertion and Persistent Inequality in Punjab
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalBuilding 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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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
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Varṇa’dan Hiyerarşi’ye: Modern Dünya Düzeninde Dalitler
Dini AraştırmalarSınıflı toplum anlayışının günümüzde en yoğun ve canlı sayılabilecek örneğini bulabileceğimiz Hindu toplumunun alt tabakasını, hatta dışlanmış ve tamamen dışarıda kabul edilenlerini oluşturan dalitler, tarihsel süreçte her daim ezilen ve yok sayılan bir ...
Arzu Yıldız Aydın
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Born again in the light of Buddha [PDF]
, 2007 Article discussing how India's Untouchables are converting to Buddshism to obtain a better ...
Rughani, Pratap
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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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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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Book Review: Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India [PDF]
, 2011 A review of Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India edited by Rowena Robinson and Joseph Marianus ...
Roberts, Michelle Voss
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Social cure research shows that community identification can be a source of beneficial social resources. However, extreme poverty may undermine social cure processes, in a type of social curse. In our study, we examined whether village identification is a source of collective efficacy among disempowered ethnic groups in Nepal.
Magdalena Skrodzka +2 more
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