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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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08 Jul 2014
TL;DR: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies as discussed by the authors is a well-known pariah conversion problem in the United States, and it has been studied extensively in the last few decades.
Abstract: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Land Tenure or Labor Control? The Agrarian Mise-en-Sc ne2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste3. The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State4. The State and the Ceri5. Settling Land6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating a Friction Where None Exists8. Everyday Warfare: Caste9. The Depressed ClassesConclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring LegaciesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
81 citations
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24 Apr 2008
TL;DR: The rise of clientelist democracy in Senegalais d'Amerique has been discussed in this article, where the authors discuss the role of independent brokerages in clientelist elections.
Abstract: Introduction * Clientelist Democracy in Comparative Perspective * The Rise of Senegal's Clientelist Democracy * Influential Brokers: The Murid Marabouts of Central Senegal * Dependent Brokers: Caste Politics among the Tukulor of Northern Senegal * Limited Brokers: The Casamancais Sons of the Soil in S. Senegal * Autonomous Brokers: The Beru Gox of the Senegalais d'Amerique * The Future of Clientelist Democracy
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30 Jun 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of data mining, and propose a solution.
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TL;DR: The male-to-female sex ratio in India at the turn of the twentieth century varied positively with caste rank, fell as one moved from the North to the East and then to the South, and was higher for Hindus than for Muslims and for northern Indo-Aryan speakers than for the southern Dravidian-speaking people.
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio varied positively with caste rank, fell as one moved from the North to the East and then to the South, was higher for Hindus than for Muslims, and was higher for northern Indo-Aryan speakers than for the southern Dravidian-speaking people. We argue that these systematic patterns in the data are consistent with variations in the institution of family, kinship, and inheritance.
80 citations