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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement.
Fehr, Ernst   +2 more
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From a Wretched Past to an Uncertain and Undignified Future: The Open Secret of Manual Scavenging in India

open access: yesCaste
India promises liberty, equality, justice and fraternity with dignity of life through the Constitution to every citizen without any discrimination. However, a particular section of society has been deprived of these promises due to their birth, gender ...
Sanghamitra Parida, Krushna Chichuan
doaj   +1 more source

Áreas de preservação permanente na legislação ambiental brasileira Areas of permanent preservation in brazilian environmental legislation

open access: yesCiência Rural, 2011
A Área de Preservação Permanente (APP), principal área protegida instituída por norma jurídica no Brasil, foi criada pelo Código Florestal (Lei 4.771) em 1965.
Luís Antônio Coimbra Borges   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modern Hindu culture : a study on modernization of Hinduism by considering the parallels in modern Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The Christian culture experienced a deep-going change with the uprising of the Civil Society ("Bürgerliche Gesellschaft"), the industrialization of economic production, the urbanization of life-style and the individualization of religiosity in the 19th ...
Weber, Edmund
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The Dalits, Religions and Interfaith Dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
The Dalits of India who follow different religious traditions are beginning to come together these days as one people. While their main concern is to fight economic, political and cultural marginalization, what it means to the religions to which they ...
Ayrookuzhiel, A.M. Abraham
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Existence of Untouchability towards Maari Theyyam—A Traditional Art Form of Kerala

open access: yes, 2016
The renaissance movement led by Vaikundam Swamikal, Sreekumara Gurudevan, Ayyankali, Chattambi Swamikal, Dr. V. V. Velukkutty Arayan, Sahodharan Ayyappan, Swami Vakbhadananda and Swami Anantha Theertha was helping to eradicate untouchability from Kerala.
P. Vijisha, E. Raja
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conversion to Islam: Untouchables' Strategy for Protest in India

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1990
Many Indians were taken by surprise, anger, and dismay by several thousand South Indian untouchables when they converted to Islam in 1981-82. Hindu chauvinists violently reacted and formed the Vishva Hindu Prishad which later occupied the famous mosque ...
Mohammad A. Siddiqi
doaj   +1 more source

Colonialism and Liberation: Ambedkar’s Quest for Distributive Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Ambedkar denounced caste system for violating the respect and dignity of the individual; yet his critique of caste-ridden society also foregrounds the limits of the theory and practice of citizenship and liberal politics in India ...
Verma, Vidhu
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Banishing Financial Untouchability of the Poor through PMJDY – A Tryst with New Destiny

open access: yes, 2015
Unrestrained access to financial products and services without any discrimination for the people at the bottom of social pyramid is an elusive goal even after 68 years independence.
I. Satpathy, B. Patnaik, P. Das
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relations between Kosovo and Albania (1968-1969) [PDF]

open access: yesHistorijski pogledi
This study sheds light on the relations between Kosovo and Albania during 1968. Using archival documents in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania, relevant literature and the press of the time, the author intended to carefully treat these relations ...
Kosovar Basha
doaj   +1 more source

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