Caste
Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution. Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of India's Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting to the present time. However, the economic significance of the caste system in India has been declining as a result of urbanization and affirmative action programs. A subject of much scholarship by sociologists and anthropologists, the …
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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English
"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …
people whom they called “half-breeds” or “half-caste” possessed, or could readily develop, what Venn …
Fraser Institute · 7 March 2024 English
In countries with higher levels of economic freedom, people are less likely to subscribe to social norms that prioritize men over women in education, the labour force and political leadership. …
institutions (like gen- der norms and the remnants of a caste system), can prevent women from being able to exercise …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 27 February 2024 English
He is an advisor to the Nonprofit Resilience Lab, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Philanthropist, and is the lead author of an annual scan of trends and …
international regulation and enforcement, a genetic caste Industrial and Artisanal Design system could emerge …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 22 February 2024 English
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In …
far as her family background was concerned. By caste she was a malik, a landowner, and they had lands …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
” they were relegated to the lowest rung of the caste system by the incoming creators of that system …
Liu Institute for Global Issues · 19 December 2023 English
P impossible to ignore the profound Bridging the divide between academia and challenges that have defined our times—from the real-world policy-making, SPPGA stands at the G scars of the pandemic …
bridge the gap between academia and dialogue about caste-based discrimination with research and events under … under the events including “The Trauma of Caste” with industry, and between scholars and the broader community …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 6 December 2023 French
Les stratégies de développement priorisées correspondent-elles à la réalité et aux besoins locaux dans la société haïtienne ? Les acteurs locaux participent-ils au processus de développement économique ? Quelle place …
renégocié. Les intérêts rivaux, de classe et de caste n’ont pas été dissipés autour d’un projet de société …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English
This ethnography shows how the language of compassion is used to oppress Bhutanese refugees.
existing social structures. Others, such as the caste system and particular marriage customs, did not … would have been masked for several months. The caste system was one such matter. Service providers inadvertently … research. Initially, I was reluctant to analyze the caste system—worried it would throw a poor light on the … prioritizing moral evaluations that regarded the caste system as a “problem” over the importance the system … held by both men and women, regardless of age or caste, with very few exceptions. When I visited people’s …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 2 November 2023 English
Human rights codes emerged in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War and during the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States. [...] Specifically: …
based on their own merit. No aristocracy, no ethnic caste system, no religious identification should prevail …
APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 18 October 2023 English
OCTOBER 18, 2023 INSIGHT: SOUTH ASIA Bureaucratic obstacles delay implementation of India’s landmark Women’s Reservation Bill THE TAKEAWAY IMPLICATIONS India’s passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill, • Trends in women’s …
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