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The Promise of Memory: Politics of Memory and Caste Inequality in Collective Memory Consolidation

Caste
In the generic description of Indian society, the question of memory is about passive recollection of past. But in the caste-system based Indian experience, memory is also an active source of transforming one’s condition in the present and reshaping the
Vikas Kumar Choudhary
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SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘UNFREEDOMS’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Housing Violence in Bengaluru, India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
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Christianity and Its Impact on the Lives of Kallars in Tamil Nadu Who Embraced the Faith, in Comparison to Those Who Did Not: Special Reference to Kallar Tamil Lutheran Christians in Tamil Nadu

Religions, 2023
The German and Swedish Lutheran Mission was a major and pioneering Protestant mission society that started its mission work in Tamil Nadu. The Halle Danish, Leipzig mission, and Church of Sweden mission societies had a larger mission field in Tamil Nadu.
Jayabalan Murthy
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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Discrimination against Dalits in contemporary India:affirmative action, religious conversions and women’s activism as responses to caste-based social injustice [PDF]

, 2017
Due to entrenched social caste divisions, discrimination against Dalits is a serious on-G.O.I.ng issue in contemporary India. This thesis focuses on how the caste system affects the lives and treatment of Dalits.
Lucas, E.
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THE INCREASE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN INDIA AND HINDUTVA

RUDN Journal of World History, 2015
India have enacted laws to restrict religious conversions low castes convert from Hinduism, the laws reinforce existing social categories by making it harder for people to change their identities.
O Leonidovna Solodkova
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Dalits and mental health: investigating perceptions, stigma and barriers to support in Kathmandu, Nepal

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2020
# Background In Nepal, caste-based disparities have been identified in mental health. The lowest caste, the Dalits, face the greatest discrimination and have a greater prevalence of depression and anxiety when compared with high castes. Therefore, it is
Amber N French
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Scheduled Castes, Dalits and Criminalisation by ‘descent’

State Crime, 2020
The Scheduled Castes/“Dalits” represent the “untouchables” in India's constitutional framework and are traditionally outside the four-tiered rung of the Hindu religion.
Zia Akhtar
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Hariprasad Tamta: Father of Shilpkar Revolution in India

Caste, 2023
Uttarakhand is a region replete with social diversity. This can be observed in its culture, customs and language. The social perspective of these diversities is outwardly similar but in the social and economic perspective the discrimination between ...
Sandeep kumar
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