Introduction

Searle‐Chatterjee, Mary; Sharma, Ursula

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.1993.tb03398.x

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“…M. Searle-Chatterjee and U. Sharma assert that caste is quickly becoming unimportant in occupational choice in cities. 23 Béteille reports a similar pattern in private-sector managerial jobs. The demands an increasingly liberal, urban, specialized, technologically progressing India places on labor markets to match efficiently human capital to tasks have long since made caste increasingly less important in Indian economic life.…”

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Culture, Development, and Government: Reservations in India

Osborne

2001

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Section: Caste In Economic Lifementioning

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Culture, Development, and Government: Reservations in India

Osborne

2001

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…The caste system and its hierarchy in India is highlighted by Searle‐Chatterjee and Sharma (1994) as a mechanism that “fulfills the need for a single and powerful organizing image that enables westerners to think about a specific nonwestern society.” Recent literature has emphasized the rigid social stratification system of caste and its impact on racial discrimination and relationship functioning (see e.g., Nielsen et al, 2020).…”

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Dalits and their territorial rights in India

Momen,

Shahen

2024

World Affairs

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A caste is one of the conventional four social strata into which Hindu society seperates its members. The scriptures from ancient India make reference to it. The four classes are the Brahmins (priestly people), the Kshatriyas (rulers, administrators, and warriors; also known as Rajanyas), the Vaishyas (artisans, merchants, businessmen, and farmers), and the Shudras are the lowest of the caste system (laboring classes). However, an individual of the lowest class in traditional Indian society falls outside of the Hindu caste system and is subject to severe social restrictions. This commentary is divided into three parts; the first part highlights the caste system, the second part examines the constitutional and legislative safeguards for them, and the third part illustrates the current social disparity of Dalits in India.

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Caste and its implications for sociologies of inequality

Bhambra

2024

Current Sociology

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The concern to think about the place of caste as a conceptual category – within, and in relation to, broader sociological understandings of inequality – was the primary motivation of the British Sociological Association Presidential event on ‘Caste and its Implications for Sociologies of Inequality’ held at the London School of Economics in late autumn 2023. It sought not only to engage with caste sociologically but also to ask the question of what a consideration of caste could bring to sociological thinking more generally.

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Introduction

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Culture, Development, and Government: Reservations in India

Culture, Development, and Government: Reservations in India

Dalits and their territorial rights in India

Caste and its implications for sociologies of inequality

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