interaction. However, especially backward caste people living in regions with a large fraction of backward castes have a lower …

the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged castes and tribes on voting behavior. We find that in a reserved … constituency, where only members of the disadvantaged castes can stand for election, voters of the disadvantaged castes are …

the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged castes and tribes on voting behavior. We find that in a reserved … constituency, where only members of the disadvantaged castes can stand for election, voters of the disadvantaged castes are …

household or in distributing the benefits of work in favour of the marginalised population (such as Scheduled Castes and …

People of the Scheduled Castes have a long history of being discriminated against, exploited, and placed at the bottom …. There is, however, strong resistance among the higher castes (just above that of the Scheduled Castes in many cases), about … a quota for the Scheduled Castes for the post of president in the grama panchayats of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, with the …

years? We examine this question by contrasting the fortunes of the historically disadvantaged scheduled castes and tribes …

disadvantaged Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), and women face considerable difficulties when they are situated … amid representatives who come from powerful castes or belong to the local elite. Whether a Sarpanch Raj is indeed the de …

Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with water ritually taints …

Against the backdrop of policy of reservation of seats in Higher Education for the Other Backward Castes in India, this … clear hierarchy across (essentially) caste-based social groups with the Scheduled Castes (in Urban India) and the Scheduled … Tribes (in Rural India) at the bottom, the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in the middle and the non-SC/ST Others at the top …