Crossing Caste Boundaries in the Modern Indian Marriage Market

Ahuja, Amit; Ostermann, Susan L.

doi:10.1007/s12116-015-9178-2

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“…Accordingly, Munshi (2019) found a decline in caste networks in urban market economy. This economic shift also impacted social practices (e.g., intercaste marriages and food preferences Ahuja & Ostermann, 2016;Natrajan, 2018;Natrajan & Jacob, 2018).…”

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“…That is, caste relations are currently more often considered as a market of horizontally competing castes (Stroope, 2012), in contrast to a conceptualisation of hierarchically different castes, which was the case previously. Further, flexibility and mobility of different caste groups are more visible, for instance, in terms of intercaste marriages (Ahuja & Ostermann, 2016) and food-related preferences (e.g., a generally increased consumption of beef and other meat products instead of vegetarianism, which was previously associated with higher castes in particular; Natrajan, 2018;Natrajan & Jacob, 2018).…”

Section: Indian Caste Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Tiwari

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Schild

et al. 2021

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Ingroup/outgroup categorisation is a repeatedly found phenomenon. Given the long‐standing caste system, the Indian societal structure provides a unique perspective on such social categorisation. The Indian caste system contains hereditarily inherited identity roles defining profession and status‐based hierarchies. In this preregistered experiment, we investigate the influence of caste‐based identity on cooperation using a (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma. Specifically, Indian participants (N = 685) were paired with a (hypothetical) other in a Prisoner’s Dilemma, whose last name reflected either a general caste (i.e., a “high” caste) or a backward (“lower”) caste including the scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, and other backward classes. Because participants indicated belonging to a general or a backward caste themselves, they thus played the (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma with either a member of the same or a different caste group. We did not find that the partner’s caste group membership in terms of stemming from an ingroup (same caste) or outgroup (different caste) influenced participants’ cooperation. Further, we found participants from the general caste to be more cooperative when paired with (hypothetical) backward caste others (outgroup), compared to backward caste participants when paired with (hypothetical) general caste participants (outgroup); however, this difference disappeared once controlling for other demographic characteristics.

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Section: Indian Caste Systemmentioning

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Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Tiwari

Ścigała

Schild

et al. 2021

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…The vast majority of literature on intermarriages has been on inter-racial marriages in the United States (see Qian & Lichter, 2011, for an overview), with some assorted literature on other countries such as the Netherlands (Kalmijn & Van Tubergen, 2006;Van Tubergen & Maas, 2007), Singapore (Lee, 1988), Sweden (Dribe & Lundh, 2008 and the United Kingdom (Muttarak & Heath, 2010). In the developing country context, there is a small literature on inter-caste and inter-religious marriage in India (Ahuja & Ostermann, 2016;Goli, Singh, & Sekher, 2013;Ray, Chaudhari, & Sahai, 2017), inter-ethnic marriage in China (Mamet, Jacobson, & Heaton, 2005) and mixed marriages by nationality in Qatar (Alharahsheh, Mohieddin, & Almeer, 2015). Contemporary cross-national examinations of intermarriage are extremely small in number, with Hou, Zheng, Schimmele, and Myles (2015)'s study of Canada and the United States the only recent such work of note.…”

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Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Bandyopadhyay

Green

2021

J of Intl Development

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We use Demographic and Health Survey data to undertake the largest ever examination into the causes of inter-ethnic marriage in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa and document a number of novel findings. First, we show that inter-ethnic marriage rates are high, at 19.4% on average, vary significantly across countries and are rising over time.Second, we show that individual variables associated with modernization such as urbanization, literacy/education and declines in polygamy and agricultural employment are correlated with inter-ethnic marriage. Third, we show that inter-ethnic marriage is quadratically correlated with ethnic group size and negatively correlated with both educational homogamy and country-population size.

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“…Caste inequalities have also gone down, more so in southern India than in northern India (Varshney 2012). Upper castes, if not financially well off, are willing to "marry down," especially if the lower castes are richer (Ahuja and Ostermann 2015). But the idea that fellow citizens are equal remains only partially anchored in mass consciousness.…”

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Asian Democracy through an Indian Prism

Varshney

2015

J of Asian Stud

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The essays in this symposium are longing for completion. A heavy Indian shadow hangs over them. Asian democracy is the overall theme of the symposium, but India, Asia's biggest “democratic behemoth,” to use Edward Aspinall's phrase, is more or less missing. Why is a discussion of Indian democracy necessary for this symposium? What would it add to the arguments made here and the themes discussed?

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Crossing Caste Boundaries in the Modern Indian Marriage Market

Cited by 25 publications

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Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Asian Democracy through an Indian Prism

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