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Caste
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 study demonstrates the urgent need for violence prevention initiatives, particularly those that address the contribution of structural inequalities.
Abstract: Ethnographic research was conducted in rural communities in Karnataka State, South India, to explore the contexts in which marital violence occurs and the relationships between structural inequalities (gender, caste, and class inequalities) and marital violence. Research highlighted that (a) marital violence is intimately linked to experiences of gender, caste, and class inequalities; (b) women's ability to resist violence hinges on access to economic and social resources; and (c) health care providers need to be actively involved in responding to violence. This study demonstrates the urgent need for violence prevention initiatives, particularly those that address the contribution of structural inequalities.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role played by caste, education, beauty, and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians was studied. But, they found that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage and that both sides of the market share this preference and that the groups are fairly homogeneous in terms of the distribution of other attributes.
Abstract: This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches We estimate the preferences for caste, education, beauty, and other attributes We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we observe in the data We find the stable matches to be quite similar to the actual matches, suggesting a relatively frictionless marriage market One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage However, because both sides of the market share this preference and because the groups are fairly homogeneous in terms of the distribution of other attributes, in equilibrium, the cost of wanting to marry within-caste is low This allows caste to remain a persistent feature of the Indian marriage market
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the role of low-caste protest in nineteenth-century western India and its role in the emergence of a distinctive radical voice, including Jotirao Phule and his circle.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on translations and area under study, with map Part I. Introduction: 1. Low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India Part II. Religion and Society Under Early British Rule: 2. From warrior traditions to nineteenth-century politics: structure, ideology, and identity in the Maratha-kunbi caste complex 3. The crisis of cultural legitimacy: missionaries, reformers, and Hindu society in the mid-nineteenth century 4. The growth of religious reform opinion in western India Part III. Jotirao Phule and his circle: the emergence of a distinctive radical voice: 5. Student radicals in mid-nineteenth-century Maharashtra 6. The Aryan invasions and the origins of caste society 7. Warriors and cultivators: the reinterpretation of popular culture 8. Maratha history as polemic: low caste ideology and political debate in late nineteenth-century Maharashtra Part IV. The Lower Caste Community in Contemporary Society: 9. Religious emancipation and political competition 10. Social protest and the construction of a religious ethic 11. Traditional privileges and new skills: Phule's analysis of the nature of Brahman power 12. The Satyashodhak Samaj in the 1870s Part V. Ideology and the Non-Brahman Movement in the 1880s: 13. Phule's polemic in the 1880s: the ideological construction of rural life and labour 14. The non-Brahman movement in the 1880s 15. Epilogue: ideology and politics in nineteenth-century western India Bibliographic note Bibliography Glossary Index.
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TL;DR: It is proposed that female morphology varies as a function of size, such that larger individuals possess more queen-like traits, and the diverse mechanisms that influence caste development are simply mechanisms that affect size in ants.
Abstract: Female ants display a wide variety of morphological castes, including workers, soldiers, ergatoid (worker-like) queens and queens. Alternative caste development within a species arises from a variable array of genetic and environmental factors. Castes themselves are also variable across species and have been repeatedly gained and lost throughout the evolutionary history of ants. Here, we propose a simple theory of caste development and evolution. We propose that female morphology varies as a function of size, such that larger individuals possess more queen-like traits. Thus, the diverse mechanisms that influence caste development are simply mechanisms that affect size in ants. Each caste-associated trait has a unique relationship with size, producing a phenotypic space that permits some combinations of worker- and queen-like traits, but not others. We propose that castes are gained and lost by modifying the regions of this phenotypic space that are realized within a species. These modifications can result from changing the size-frequency distribution of individuals within a species, or by changing the association of tissue growth and size. We hope this synthesis will help unify the literature on caste in ants, and facilitate the discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying caste development and evolution.
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