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 …

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

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 …

societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially … in rural India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most …

Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India … material standards of living between the SC/ST and upper castes, as measured by consumption expenditures, on changes in the … association between crimes and expenditure of SC/ST vis-­-à-­-vis the upper castes suggesting that a widening of the gap between …

for the scheduled castes towards that of the general casts is noted as well as the slight decline in this ratio for …

context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain …

economic disparities between scheduled castes and tribes (SC/STs) and non-SC/STs during the period 1983-2005. The distinctive …