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.

Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class

Abstract: After the British conquered Bengal and eventually the whole of India,they set out to administer the colony. In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the relation of people to land for production (and not for revenue receiving, household living, etc.), and (2) the caste system of India, viz. the jati strati?cation of society.

The cognitive status of caste in colonial ethnography: A review of some literature on the NorthWest Provinces and Oudh:

Abstract: Bcknow)edgements~ This paper is a substantially revised version of Chapter I of my M.Phil. dissertation, A Structural Analysis of British and Indian Narratives on Caste for the Kwnaon-Garhwal Region of U. P. , Delhi University, 1985. I am grateful to Neeladari Bhattacharya for his comments on the earlier drafts of the chapter. I am also grateful for the valuable criticisms made by the anonymous referee, and by Dharma Kumar. I also thank Veena Das for her guidance throughout. . I

Rags to riches? intergenerational occupational mobility in India

Abstract: We examine intergenerational occupational mobility in India among males using the Indian Human Development Survey survey of 2011-12. Our analysis differs from previous work in two important respects. First, we use a finer-grained categorisation that takes into account differences in skill levels across different occupations as well as their place in India’s social hierarchy of labour. Second, we examine both sharp and moderate occupational ascents and descents – that is, both large and not-so-large movements up or down the social status ladder. We compare India with historical occupational mobility elsewhere and examine how such ascents and descents are linked to social identity and urban location. We find that vast differences exist in the upward mobility prospects of urban versus rural residents and upper-caste Hindus versus Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Simultaneously, the prospects for downward mobility are large in India, larger among rural residents and among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. We also find striking parallels between upward mobility prospects and sharp descent risks in India and China

Dangerous Wives And Sacred Sisters Social And Symbolic Roles Of High Caste Women In Nepal

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