of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative action (AA). Despite a significant gap in entry scores at admission to …This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to … evaluate externalization and attitudes towards AA, there are clear and significant differences between caste groups that reveal …

Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these … points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …

female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … from caste discrimination. Given the increasing share of professionals from a lower caste background, our results suggest … that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. …