Identity politics and the need for a ‘tomorrow’ [PDF]
Recent years have witnessed a general backlash against identity politics, both in the academy and the public sphere. This paper recognises the problems in identity politics as arising from an apparent difficulty in conceptualising identity separately
Bhambra, Gurminder K., Margree, Victoria
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Elite Dominance and Under-investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92 [PDF]
Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population.
Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh
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Alternative media is increasingly a strategic tool in environmental justice movements. One area that remains especially understudied is how marginalised women, specifically, indigenous and Dalit women, use alternative media in India to put forward their ...
Kayonaaz Kalyanwala
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Reinventing Dalit Women's Identity?:Dynamics of Social Activism and Electoral Politics in Rural North India [PDF]
Govinda, Radhika
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On the Risks of Belonging to Disadvantaged Groups: A Bayesian Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes [PDF]
Although methods of analysis based on Bayes’ theorem have had rich applications in Law and in Medicine they have not been much used in Economics. We use Bayes’ theorem to construct two concepts of the “risk” associated with belonging to a particular ...
Borooah, Vani
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Ethnic differentials of the impact of Family Planning Program on contraceptive use in Nepal [PDF]
There is wide variation of family planning services use among ethnic groups in Nepal. Despite three decades of implementation the need for family planning services is substantially unmet (25%), and there have been no systematic studies evaluating the ...
Dhruba Raj Ghimire +2 more
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Poverty, Discrimination and Slavery: The reality of bonded labour in India, Nepal and Pakistan [PDF]
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Upadhyaya, Krishna Prasad
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Power and the durability of poverty: a critical exploration of the links between culture, marginality and chronic poverty [PDF]
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Gender Bias Among Children in India in their Diet and Immunisation Against Disease [PDF]
This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against disease and
Borooah, Vani
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Household food insecurity among Dalit ethnic group in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Chitwan, Nepal. [PDF]
Koirala S +4 more
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