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About: Caste is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5681 publications have been published within this topic receiving 91330 citations. The topic is also known as: caste system.


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TL;DR: This article explored implicit and explicit attitudes towards these groups in minority-status Muslim children and majority-status Hindu children, the latter drawn from various positions in the Hindu caste system, and found that the implicit attitudes parallel previous findings for race: higher-caste children as well as lower-casted children have robust high-castee preferences.
Abstract: Research on the development of implicit intergroup attitudes has placed heavy emphasis on race, leaving open how social categories that are prominent in other cultures might operate. We investigate two of India's primary means of social distinction, caste and religion, and explore the development of implicit and explicit attitudes towards these groups in minority-status Muslim children and majority-status Hindu children, the latter drawn from various positions in the Hindu caste system. Results from two tests of implicit attitudes find that caste attitudes parallel previous findings for race: higher-caste children as well as lower-caste children have robust high-caste preferences. However, results for religion were strikingly different: both lower-status Muslim children and higher-status Hindu children show strong implicit ingroup preferences. We suggest that religion may play a protective role in insulating children from the internalization of stigma.

33 citations

01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an assessment of the theories which attempt to explain the origins of violence and prepare the ground for a deeper understanding of a phenomenon which has systematically kept women in fear and subordination for centuries.
Abstract: One of the most important issues that the Indian women's movement has taken up has been that of violence against women. From the very early campaigns around rape and dowry deaths, to the continuing struggle against all forms of domestic violence and, increasingly, political rape, the issue of violence has remained in the forefront, both for the movement and for Indian women in general. By making an assessment of the theories which attempt to explain the origins of violence, this booklet prepares the ground for a deeper understanding of a phenomenon which has systematically kept women in fear and subordination for centuries. In addition to a discussion of the radical feminist and traditional Marxist analyses of violence, the author puts forward three recent theories which see a nexus between economic exploitation and patriarchy; caste, patriarchy and violence; and ecological crises, maldevelopment and violence.

33 citations

Book
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: A pathbreaking study of Dalit women's writings and lives, Writing Caste/Writing Gender offers a powerful counternarrative to mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the twentieth century as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A pathbreaking study of Dalit women's writings and lives, Writing Caste/Writing Gender offers a powerful counternarrative to mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the twentieth century. Featuring extensive extracts from eight Dalit women's life narratives - or testimonios - on issues such as food, hunger, community, caste, labor, education, violence, resistance, and collective struggle, the book brings to life voices that unequivocally show that Dalit feminism, far from being silent as so often presumed, is rich, powerful, and layered - as well as highly articulate. Writing Caste/Writing Gender contributes significantly to the field of biography and will be welcomed by scholars of caste, gender, and politics in India.

33 citations

Book
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Ravinder Kaur et al. as discussed by the authors focused on the everyday life of the migrants in three resettlement colonies, focusing on the period between 1947 and 1965, from the time of Partition till the official closure of resettlement work.
Abstract: Since 1947 is about a series of events--the departure of the British, the inauguration of the post-colonial Indian state, and an unprecedented forced migration that followed Partition. Most importantly, it summarizes the nearly six decade-long efforts at restoring the loss of homes, livelihoods, and national territory in 1947. This study tells the story of Hindus and Sikhs from the North West Frontier Province and West Punjab who made India's capital their new home. Based on the everyday life of the migrants in three resettlement colonies, the book focuses on the period between 1947 and 1965--from the time of Partition till the official closure of resettlement work. It shows how Partition stands as a living theme, a point of reference for the Delhi Punjabis. The narrative is woven with memories of lived and inherited experiences and national histories of Partition. The refugees' journey towards becoming 'locals' is mapped through an exploration of their coping strategies, and gradual identification with the Indian state. This work, thus, shifts focus from standard debates on Hindus-Muslims, Congress party-Muslim League, India-Pakistan, and opens up the inquiry to uncharted territory. Ravinder Kaur also challenges narratives that represent migration as chaotic, disorderly, and hurried. Using personal and governmental narratives, she shows that the population movement--layered by multiple levels of class, caste and gender experience--was far more complicated than we popularly imagine.

33 citations

Book
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: This paper argued that Sri Lanka society is caste-blind rather than casteless, and advocates for more explicit and targeted social policies that ensure the human rights and the dignity of underprivileged caste groups and articulate and foster their agency and capacity for bringing about social change and social justice.
Abstract: ere is complete silence about and widespread denial of caste in contemporary Sri Lanka. Caste is not recognized for any o cial purpose at least since the abolition of Rajakariya in the 1830s. e issue of caste is not discussed or debated in Sri Lankan mass media in sharp contrast to the situation in India or Nepal. In Northern Sri Lanka there is a ban imposed upon caste by the LTTE, treating it as a potential obstacle to a uni ed Eelam liberation struggle. In spite of these restrictions and denials, caste seems to operate in various private and public domains, including marriage, political and social mobilization as well as in patterns and degree of social mobility among Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka. In the prevailing social and political environment in the country caste is very much an underground and doxic phenomenon. Nevertheless, continuing caste discrimination and related grievances drive part of the social unrest in both Northern and Southern Sri Lanka. is volume brings out changing facets of caste discrimination among Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamils in varied social contexts such as rural Sri Lanka, plantations, urban settings, war-a ected regions, IDP camps, religious sphere and local and national politics. Arguing that Sri Lankan society is caste-blind rather than casteless, the book advocates for more explicit and targeted social policies that ensure the human rights and the dignity of underprivileged caste groups and articulate and foster their agency and capacity for bringing about social change and social justice.

33 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023585
20221,232
2021241
2020254
2019243
2018247