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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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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 May 2024 English
Young girls from Scheduled Caste communities in Punjab have a longer track to cover when it comes to reaching their goal of a secure job. Poverty, caste identity, lack of nutrition and limited education …
Young girls from Scheduled Caste communities in Punjab have a longer track to cover when it comes to … to reaching their goal of a secure job. Poverty, caste identity, lack of nutrition and limited education …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …
Provide for separate courts for protection against caste, ethnic, religious, gender based oppression; h. … Provide for separate courts for protection against caste, ethnic, religious, gender based oppression. Ensure …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2024 English
The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …
lack of diversity in top management beyond upper-caste men.6 Pai and Vats (2023) find a “brutal power law …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 February 2024 English
The National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, published this factsheet on the nation-wide 'Household Consumption Expenditure Survey' on February 24, 2024. The survey …
Urban schedule tribe 3,016 5,414 schedule caste 3,474 5,307 other backward class 3,848 6,177 … Urban schedule tribe 3,098 5,472 schedule caste 3,571 5,386 other backward class 3,935 6,245 …
Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies · 4 February 2024 English
adhikāra for Gauḍīya texts? Can one prove that the ācāryas intended for all Vaiṣṇavas, regardless of caste, to read their theological works? Answer: I will give certain references for this: 1. Tattva Sandarbha …
ācāryas intended for all Vaiṣṇavas, regardless of caste, to read their theological works? Answer: I will …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
This lexicon was published in January 2024 by Kuviraa India, an organization that engages adolescent girls and young women in civic and political discourse. This working document, slated to be …
describing a society without the traditional Hindu caste system, not discriminating any individuals based … educationally disadvantaged groups outside the Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories. 41. Parliamentary … Historically disadvantaged communities based on the caste system. 49. Scheduled Tribes (ST): Indigenous or …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …
inequalities on the basis of gender,67 race,68 and caste. For example, Oxfam found that Dalits in India … intersecting inequalities based on race, ethnicity and caste.102 People are fighting back with huge strikes …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. This …
23.4 Political 1032 0.1 959 0.1 941 0.1 0.0 23.5 Caste Conflict 736 0.1 451 0.0 179 0.0 0.0 ● As per data …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 November 2023 English
Cleaning Human Waste: “Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India …
Cleaning Human Waste: “Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 October 2023 English
such as theirs continue to live in makeshift structures without electricity and water. Getting a caste certificate that will make them eligible for housing is expensive and difficult …
structures without electricity and water. Getting a caste certificate that will make them eligible for housing …