For reasons related to the history and endurance of the caste system, sanitation coverage is exceptionally poor in India, a densely populated country where most people1 defecate in the open. This is a much large
CasteIdentityHinduismThis article, by examining the social component within capital and analyzing the Marxist discourse of social capital as a neo-liberal agenda that separates the social from capital, addresses the failure of the Indian left to acknowledge the caste system and identity politics in ...
There is a thread of continuity from the Vedas through the Upanishads to the epics. The Vedas and the epics support the caste system to some extent and thus reinforce the supremacy of the higher castes. However, in Ramayana, Rama disregards the caste system and embraces individuals of the lo...
The people of India have a complex population genetic history, which is further complicated by a deeply rooted caste system that has effectively prohibited inter-caste marriage for several generations and thus divided the population into numerous endogamous groups8. Recent findings of the Indian Genom...
is one of the pillars of Indian society. There is no universal caste system in India, but many regional variations of asymmetrical hereditary group relations emerged in the first millennium CE. These identities were important social markers and sometimes survived enslaved people’s entire experience ...
Unique among religions, Buddhism does not profess sin and punishment or penance, it abhors caste system and above all, this religion (along with Jainism) is not based on a belief in a Supreme Being or Soul. “GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA” (Gautama the Enlightened one) 563-483 BC: ...
The OBCs are considered lower castes in the old caste system, although they are not untouchables. The "other" caste category is identified as having higher social status. Place of residence was coded as rural and urban. The regions of India were coded as North, Central, East, Northeast, ...
Ogra2008), which place women at the centre of the agricultural system, while men are expected to participate in the cash economy mainly related to off-farm income generation. Furthermore, in this region, Kumaoni people are an ethnic group with a traditional caste systemFootnote1that is still ...
The OBCs are considered lower castes in the old caste system, although they are not untouchables. The "other" caste category is identified as having higher social status. Place of residence was coded as rural and urban. The regions of India were coded as North, Central, East, Northeast, ...
the rude habits of the girl’s mother.This rather implicit, ambiguous approach fits in very well with theambiguous attitude that Hindustani youth themselves feel towards thecaste system. Although most of the young claim that the caste systemis nonexistent in the Netherlands, many also noted that...