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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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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot as mentioned in this paper reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities.
Abstract: The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.
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TL;DR: The authors distinguish four separate referents of "caste" in India: Brahmans or priests, Ksattriyas or warriors, Vaisyas or men of commerce, and Sudras who are workmen.
Abstract: I can distinguish four separate referents of ‘caste’ in India. I) Caste as varna. There are four (sometimes five) varna (‘colour’) in India, and in order of ranking these are, as everyone knows, Brahmans or priests, Ksattriyas or warriors, Vaisyas or men of commerce, and Sudras who are workmen. These varna are not groups but categories. They are not exhaustive, since some of the population (e.g. such non-Hindus as Muslims or Tribals, and the Untouchables of Hinduism itself) do not fall within the four categories.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of caste, tribe, and religion in determining energy inequality in India and provided evidence by using the National Sample Survey Organisation data from the 68th round (2011−−−12) of 87,753 households.
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TL;DR: The authors examines the saga of the demand for a beef stall by the Dalit students in Hyderabad Central University and argues that rejection of the culture of any community injures the human agency of that community.
Abstract: Equality of treatment for all citizens and their cultures in public places is one of the prominent declarations of the secular Constitution of India. The hegemony of Hindu culture in the public sphere, however, reflects a dichotomy between stated declarations and social reality. Placing Dalits at the bottom of the caste hierarchy, if not outside it, ‘mainstream’ Hindu culture not only marginalised but importantly rejected the Dalits and their culture. This article examines the saga of the demand for a beef stall by the Dalit students in Hyderabad Central University and argues that the rejection of the culture of any community injures the human agency of that community. It is proposed that such injury can be healed only by a dialogical process, involving assertion of positivity and pride in the culture of the injured and positive recognition of such assertion by the injurer. Democratisation of the public sphere can be actualised by according representation to marginalised cultures, but in addition such rep...
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