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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: In this article, the status of women among the scheduled tribes in India is analyzed and the distinctiveness of the tribal cultures and the fact that many women from the scheduled groups face less discrimination than Hindu women and those from scheduled castes.
Abstract: The scheduled tribes constitute about 8.2% of the total population in India. Although there is a large volume of anthropological literature describing the characteristics of and differences among the various tribes in India, little inter-disciplinary research has been done to uncover the status of women among the tribal population in India. This paper will analyze the status of women among the scheduled tribes in India. Frequent comparisons will be made to the social and cultural practices of the scheduled tribes, mainstream Hindus, as well as the scheduled caste population. Through this analysis, we will show the distinctiveness of the tribal cultures and the fact that many women from the scheduled tribes face less discrimination than Hindu women and those from scheduled castes.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that subsequent changes in domestic water policies have only served to exacerbate an enduring unequal social order around water in India, and they argue that both official welfare-based supply and recent neo-liberal policies and interventions hinge on a tokenistic, segregated and apolitical mention of gender and/or caste concerns which, when translated into action, have often reinforced existing inequities.
Abstract: Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India’s drinking water policy from a welfarebased, free supply mode to a market-oriented demandled approach. However, a complex entwining of caste and gender has consistently defined water allocation and access among users and entrenched fractures in the structure and culture of the policy-implementing and regulatory institutions. Contrary to popular assumptions, both official welfare-based supply and recent neo-liberal policies and interventions hinge on a tokenistic, segregated and apolitical mention of gender and/or caste concerns which, when translated into action, have often reinforced existing inequities. Based on the above observations, this paper argues that subsequent changes in domestic water policies have only served to exacerbate an enduring unequal social order around water in India
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Book•
28 Oct 2009
TL;DR: The City of Delhi WASTE as INFORMAL SECTOR WORK: MEASURING INCOME POVERTY, INEQUALITY, and DEPRIVATION 4. Interlinked contracts and social power: Patronage and exploitation in India's Waste Recovery Market 5. Exploitation or entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the Economics of Survival in the Informal Market Economy as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES, LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MAP 1. Introduction 2. The City of Delhi WASTE AS INFORMAL SECTOR WORK: MEASURING INCOME POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND DEPRIVATION 4. Interlinked Contracts and Social Power: Patronage and Exploitation in India's Waste Recovery Market 5. Exploitation or Entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the Economics of Survival in the Informal Market Economy FROM PIGS AND POLLUTION TO PLASTICS AND PROGRESS: RECASTING LOW CASTE STATUS IN INDIA'S EXPANDING INFORMAL ECONOMY 7. 'Bourgeois Environmentalism', the State, the Judiciary and the Urban Poor: The Political Mobilization of a Scheduled Caste Market 8. Conclusion. METHODOLOGICAL NOTE, PLASTICS APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX.
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TL;DR: The authors examines changes in symbolic power through an ethnographic study of a village in North India and offers insights into sharing as a means of enacting and reshaping symbolic power within a status hierarchy.
Abstract: When social and economic conditions change dramatically, status hierarchies in place for hundreds of years can crumble as marketization destabilizes once rigid boundaries. This study examines such changes in symbolic power through an ethnographic study of a village in North India. Marketization and accompanying privatization do not create an independent sphere where only money matters, but due to a mix of new socioeconomic motives, they produce new social obligations, contests, and solidarities. These findings call into question the emphasis in consumer research on top-down class emulation as an essential characteristic of status hierarchies. This study offers insights into sharing as a means of enacting and reshaping symbolic power within a status hierarchy. A new order based on markets and consumption is disrupting the old order based on caste. As the old moral order dissolves, so do the old status hierarchies, obligations, dispositions, and norms of sharing that held the village together for centuries. In the microcosm of these gains and losses, we may see something of the broader social and economic changes taking place throughout India and other industrializing countries.
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15 Feb 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the post-colonization Haryana: Caste Endogamy and traditional Panchayats, and cases of Runaway Marriage: State Intervention and Controlling Remarriage.
Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION 1. Colonial period: Creeping Rigidity 2. Post-colonial Haryana: Caste Endogamy and Traditional Panchayats 3. Inter-Caste Marriages: Defying Cultural Norms 4. Cases of Runaway Marriage: State Intervention 5. Controlling Remarriage: Post-Colonial Strengthening of the Levirate 6. Understanding Local Perceptions: Caste Stereotypes and Cultural Explanations 7. Social Factors: Political Economy of Contentious Marriages EPILOGUE: COMPLEXITIES AND CONCERNS GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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