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Untouchability And Public Infrastructure [PDF]
Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with water ritually taints the source. Despite untouchability practices being outlawed by the Constitution of India, they are still vigorous and violently ...
Catherine Bros, Mathieu Couttenier
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Maternal autonomy, caste system, and children's school enrollment in India
Family Relations, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 619-642, February 2026.Abstract Objective This study examined the relationship between maternal autonomy and children's school enrollment in India and assessed how caste‐based social stratification moderates this association. Background Maternal autonomy, encompassing financial control, decision‐making power, and mobility are key determinants of child development.
Poulami Chatterjee +2 more
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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste
Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2015 As the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political rights.
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal, Wandana Sonalkar
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Decasticization, Dignity, and ‘Dirty Work’ at the Intersections of Caste, Memory, and Disaster
, 2019 In this qualitative study we examine the role of caste, class, and Dalit janitorial labor in the aftermath of floods in Chennai, India, in 2015. Drawing from a variety of sources including interviews, social media, and news coverage, we studied how Dalit
Jagannathan, Srinath +2 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 7-22, February 2026.ABSTRACT Objective Guided by intersectional feminism and symbolic interactionism, the purpose of this study was to document the untold stories of women with incarcerated spouses in India. Background When a family member is incarcerated, the task of emotionally and financially supporting the family often falls upon women, who are likely to be ...
Shivangi Gupta, Caroline Sanner
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The Leader as Catalyst: On Leadership and the Mechanics of Institutional Change [PDF]
Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of organizations, political institutions and many instances of social and economic reform. In this paper we take a first step towards analyzing the role of leadership to ask: when and how does a ...
Sharun Mukand, Sumon Majumdar
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Why all the Fuss about Purity?: Un/Touch-ability and the Paradox of Hygienic Bodies
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2019 Focusing on the question of untouchability and how a discourse of hygiene comes to justify it in the recent times, the paper attempts a brief genealogy tracing the linking of caste and the concept of hygiene.
Subro Saha
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Jetor: An Unrecognized Caste Community in West Bengal
CasteBased on ethnographic research methodology, this article engages with the questions of identity, recognition, and major economic activities of the Jetor(s), a riverine, as yet unrecognized, partly-pastoral, in-marrying, ethnic group dwelling in forestine
Debdas Roy
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A Bibliographic Essay on Hindu and Christian Dalit Religiosity [PDF]
, 2004 In his now classic novel Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand portrays the life of a sweeper named Bakha. Bakha works cleaning latrines at the Cantonment, imitates the British tommies in his attire, and negotiates the differing spaces in which is Untouchability
Schmalz, Mathew N.
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, 2011 This essay is a lightly revised version of the 2011 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, to mark the International Day of Non-Violence, observed every year on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, 2nd ...
Guha, Ramachandra
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