The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities … other identities such as caste and race. By viewing conspicuous consumption within the Stigma-Identity-Threat framework …, this study analyses how socially disadvantaged groups in India respond to stigma through their consumption behaviour. Using …

-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …. Further, the employment guarantee scheme alters self-perceptions differentially for different caste groups, but in more …

state-level analysis of inequality of opportunity in income due to caste, religion and gender. Results suggest that there is …

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized … groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation of this disparate development in terms of …. We experiment with various indirect economic and political measures of elite dominance. Results based on the Indian state …

to continue enrolment in secondary school and complete high-school. In 2008, the central government in India implemented … the legislation for 27 percent of seats to be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC), a disadvantaged caste-group, in …

approaches. According to the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), there were 244.9 million households in India of which 179 …