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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …
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Access to Higher Education in India: An Exploration of its Antecedents
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali - eSocialSciences - 2013
Using appropriate measures of participation, this paper explores if the role of socio-religious background and other factors has changed over a period of time. This dynamics of participation in Higher Education (HE) is analyzed by using three rounds of NSS data for the period 1999-2010. [IIMA]....
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Can these Policies Change their Life?
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
Women who come into the stream of domestic workers are poorly educated and do not know their rights. It is necessary that these women know about their rights. Even after reading the policies some questions remain: can these policies change their lives? Will they be able to lead a decent life?
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Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women An Overview of Issues
Raman, Vasanthi - eSocialSciences - 2010
The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and tortuous interrelationship between gender, national and other multiple identities are explored....
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Equitable Society : A New Concern For Social Work
Dwivedi, Manish; N, Awasthi N - eSocialSciences - 2007
Trained Social Workers must be very well aware of Equitable Society philosophy and implementation programmes. They must find opportunity of working with extremely marginalized people.
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Are Gender Differentials in Educational Capabilities Mediated through Institutions of Caste and Religion in India?
Unni, Jeemol - eSocialSciences - 2009
addressed in the utility approach is used. The two approaches are juxtaposed to examine how institutions such as caste and …
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant - eSocialSciences - 2012
data on the religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces …
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages … responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches is used. The preferences for caste, education, beauty …
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Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper explores how socio-economic, especially socio-religious affiliations, and demographic characteristics of individuals influence participation in higher education (HE). It argues that appropriate measures of ‘deficits’ in participation should inform the nature and scope of...
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Social Cleavages, Multiculturalism and Emerging Space for State in India under Globalisation Regime
Mishra, Sarojini; Palai, Nirod; Das, Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper focuses on social cleavages based on class , caste,religion and ethnicity in India. It examines the … India. The authors argue that political conflict becomes more severe when social cleavages based on class, caste and … political salience of caste and class conflicts and addresses the translation of social cleavages into political oppositions in …
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