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Caste and Religion in India

Social Movements in India: Role of Caste and Religion

Social Movements in India: Role of Caste and Religion

... Social movements are thus clearly different from historical movements, tendencies or trends. Social movements primarily take the form of non-institutionalised collective political action which strives for political and ...

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Inequality in health outcomes in India: the role of caste and religion

Inequality in health outcomes in India: the role of caste and religion

... Table 3 shows that, even after imposing all the above controls, the average age of the deceased was significantly affected by the social group to which they belonged. Compared to the average age at death of Hindus (the ...

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The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion, and Economic Status in India

The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion, and Economic Status in India

... in India. In 1992, India‟s Supreme Court, in Sawhney v The Union of India, upheld jobs reservation for the OBC but ruled that: (i) reservation was not to extend to more than 50 percent of the ...

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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

... in India as the lower caste ...inferring religion from ...make religion salient, we exploit close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim (primarily Hindu) ...

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Capturing caste in law: The legal regulation of caste and caste-based discrimination

Capturing caste in law: The legal regulation of caste and caste-based discrimination

... Thereafter, they can be de-listed only by Parliament. 172 Currently, over eleven hundred castes are Scheduled. 173 Scheduled status is established by means of a Caste Certificate issued by the authorities, ...

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Caste System- India.pdf

Caste System- India.pdf

... In approximately 1500 BC a group of people known as the Aryans invaded India. The Aryans were a nomadic people and brought many new ideas to India, including their religion. Their religious beliefs ...

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Discrimination Based on the Caste and Lineage: With Special Focus on Dalit Women in India

Discrimination Based on the Caste and Lineage: With Special Focus on Dalit Women in India

... in India are at the lowest of cast ...on caste and descent results in the sexual control and violent appropriation over Dalit women by men of the dominant caste, apparent in systematic performance of ...

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David Mosse, The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India

David Mosse, The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India

... Dalits, caste and social ...Christian religion and Tamil society, an exploration of how the very categories of religion and culture are produced in historically and locally specific ...how ...

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A Tale Begun in Other Days: Understanding Caste as Social Exclusion in India

A Tale Begun in Other Days: Understanding Caste as Social Exclusion in India

... (read caste) ...into religion; justify and uphold the practice of the caste system and simultaneously, provide an exegetical explanation of the peripheral status of the lower ...

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Religion and nationalism in India: The case of the Punjab, 1960 1995

Religion and nationalism in India: The case of the Punjab, 1960 1995

... The first Sikh master, Guru Nanak, rejected priestly Hinduism and its concomitant rituals and idol worship. He upheld the superiority of moral righteousness over mechanical ritualism. Nanak challenged the authority of ...

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Inter-state differences in caste-specific risks for child deprivation in India

Inter-state differences in caste-specific risks for child deprivation in India

... decades, India has made significant progress in a range of technological, eco- nomic and social areas; these include a well-funded space research agency, impressive and pro- longed economic growth, and the rise of ...

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Economic Vulnerability & Conversion of Religion in India: An Analysis

Economic Vulnerability & Conversion of Religion in India: An Analysis

... upper caste Hindus in the name of caste. Hindu religion does not treat its all follower alike, Hinduism discriminates against one segment of its followers vis-à-vis the other and does not treat all ...

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Jainism and Buddhism Two Religion in Ancient India

Jainism and Buddhism Two Religion in Ancient India

... (Passion), Mudita (joy at other’s success)and Upeksha(Equanimity)towards all living being in order to lead a better life in the next birth . Besides one should avoid pursuing bad instincts such as ...

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Status, security and change: An ethnographic study of caste, class and religion in rural Rajasthan

Status, security and change: An ethnographic study of caste, class and religion in rural Rajasthan

... East India). The position of a caste on the commensal hierarchy, then, can be assessed on the principle that eating food cooked or served by another caste denotes equality with it or inferiority; and ...

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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste

Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste

... the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political ...also caste identity and consequent economic ...

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PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF SCHEDULE CASTE  AND SCHEDULE TRIBES AT PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATIONS IN INDIA								
								
								     
								     
								   

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF SCHEDULE CASTE AND SCHEDULE TRIBES AT PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATIONS IN INDIA      

... race, religion, caste etc, but constitutionalists special provisions made by the state for the advancement of socially or educationally backward classes ...

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Occupational segregation by caste in present India

Occupational segregation by caste in present India

... complicated caste system in India influences life to a great ...Generally, caste system is associated with Hindu ...Today’s caste system is based on these ...rigid caste system. For ...

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Ethnicity, Caste and Religion: Implications for Poverty Outcomes

Ethnicity, Caste and Religion: Implications for Poverty Outcomes

... rural India, the analysis is restricted to examining the charac- teristics of the rural ...by caste and ...their religion. Moreover, since caste and religious identities are seen to influ- ...

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Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market

Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market

... of caste and ethnicity entered into the social hierarchy of ...''impure" caste hierarchies consisting of three and two subcategories, respectively (see Table ...

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The story of caste: old and new

The story of caste: old and new

... called caste-passing which was introduced by Halimah Mohamed Ali in 2006 in Malaysia through her ...the caste system as well as the act of ...the caste name Mochi, pass up the caste ladder ...

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