We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two …-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes … bloc will increase the likelihood of an upper caste or OBC Hindu household practising untouchability. An increase in that …

issue. This study explores how caste disparities in small-firm entrepreneurship impact on firm performance in India … observables in explaining the caste gap in productivity. This implies that even with improvements in firm attributes for Scheduled … Caste or Scheduled Tribe businesses, the productivity disadvantage of firms owned by marginalized groups may persist …

government jobs for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India. It discusses the progression and ramifications of these policies … with regard to caste and class and the exclusion of the creamy layer, or the well-off, among them. Controversies apart, OBC … past few decades and are largely attributable to the unprecedented regime of reservations India adopted at the time of …

concept using a limited sample, in the case of Bihar one of India’s poorest states where caste has been a persistent driver of … inequality. Caste is generally analysed with government-defined "broad" categories, such as Scheduled Caste (SC). In everyday … life, however, caste is experienced as "jati", a local system of stratification. We explore expenditure inequality at the …

"In this book, Das presents a class-based perspective on the economic and political situation in contemporary India in … a globalizing world. It deals with the specificities of India's capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as poverty … is to be done. The book applies abstract theoretical ideas to the concrete situation in India, which, in turn, inspires …