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Caste, Class and the Power of Water: The Socio-Political Ecology of Drinking Water in Rural India
The narrative of a village in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh finds that caste and class hierarchies effectively influence the decision making on water allocation, use, and control over drinking water. In th...
On the Margins in Gods Own City: The Geography of the Scheduled Castes in Varanasi
Varanasi, being one of the most socially diverse cities of India has been moulded over time by the underlying religio-ritual processes. There is a relatively weaker religious association of the Schedu...
Health and Nutrition in India: A Caste and Class Perspective
The intersectionality of caste, class and gender shapes multiple dimensions of social life in India. The interplay of these factors has a major effect on the health and nutrition status of children an...
The Middle Class as the Class of no Class
An attempt to understand some of the ambiguities around what it means to be middle class in India has been made in this paper. It also discusses the influence that the middle class supposedly has on I...
The Antiquity and Continuity of the Caste System in India: A Dalit Perspective
Why has the caste system survived in India for more than millennia is a question that baffles many. In order to understand it one may have to look into its past and how it was transferred generation a...
Identity and the Political Economy of Agrarian Change
Despite significant changes in the agrarian structure and affirmative action in various spheres, caste-based exclusion and discrimination continue to be widely prevalent. In the rural, agrarian econom...
Caste and Class in Indian Agriculture
The study reviews varying perspectives on the debate of caste and class in Indian Agriculture. It evaluates the emergence of caste and class differentials from the colonial to post independence period...
Social Diversity, Hierarchy and Cultural Heterogeneity among Muslims of India
Though the media and other journalistic literature in recent years have projected Muslims as socially ‘monolithic’ and with the same ‘identity’ of ‘Muslimness’, Muslims in India, are as diverse and as...
Understanding Caste and Class: Categories and Measurement
The caste has been a unique social institution in India. It has also emerged in a new form after the mandalisation of caste in the early 1990s resulting in the extension of reservation to Other Backwa...