The Caste-Class Association in India

Vaid, Divya

doi:10.1525/as.2012.52.2.395

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“…9. Social class was seen in relation to the father's occupation, and the five-fold classification has been used here referring to Drury (1993) and Vaid (2012). The five categories were: (i) Higher Professional (including legislators, senior officials, managers and professionals); (ii) Business; (iii) Lower Professionals (including associate professionals and technicians); (iv) Routine Non-Manual Clerical (including clerks); and (v) Skilled Manual Workers (including small farmers-cultivators, skilled agricultural workers, lower…”

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Gender, Subject Choice and Higher Education in India

Gautam

2015

Contemporary Education Dialogue

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The increased participation of women in higher education in India since 1947 has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. Since independence, there have been shifts–dispersal and clustering of women students in various disciplines in higher education. There is a need to understand the processes of decision making regarding schooling, subject choice and access (physical and social) to higher education. The article examines the factors affecting the subject choices of women in higher education and how diverse contexts of gender consideration influence choices made at the post-secondary and undergraduate levels. This exploratory study of women students at a university in Delhi showed that the family and the school were the key institutions that shaped their choice of subjects. In the family, the father played a prominent role in deciding the subject choice, and gender mediated the entire decision-making process. At the undergraduate level, women’s subject choice was compromised by concerns related to their gender. Priority was given to the institution, to its location and to the availability of an attached hostel, rather than to the subject or discipline.

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Gender, Subject Choice and Higher Education in India

Gautam

2015

Contemporary Education Dialogue

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“…It is natural that markers of wealth, living standards and living conditions that include material assets, land holding, housing quality, quality of drinking water and sanitation practices are distributed differentially across the caste groups (Alkire and Suman , Bhowmik , Gilbert , Mukherjee , Rawal and Swaminathan , Vaid ). Our results also confirm these differences and that too with a clear dose–response gradient.…”

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“…, Desai and Dubey , Goli et al . , Mukherjee , Natrajan , Vaid )? Or is there something more to this caste‐based inequality paradigm?…”

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Effect of caste on health, independent of economic disparity: evidence from school children of two rural districts of India

Dutta

Mohapatra

Rath

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Sociology Health & Illness

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Caste, a stratifying axis of the Indian society, is associated with wealth and health. However, to what extent caste‐based health inequality is explained by wealth disparities, is not clear. Therefore, we aimed to examine the caste‐based differences in anaemia (haemoglobin < 11 gm/dl) and self‐reported sickness absenteeism in schoolchildren and the mediating role of economic disparity. Students (n = 1764) were surveyed from 54 government schools of Dhenkanal and Angul, Odisha state. Socioeconomic data, anaemia and absenteeism were recorded. The relative risks of anaemia among Scheduled Tribe (least advantaged) and Scheduled Caste (second least advantaged) students were 1.19 (95% CI: 1.08, 1.26) and 1.13 (1.03, 1.20), respectively, as compared to students of the most advantaged caste and that for sickness absenteeism were 2.78 (2.03, 3.82) and 2.84 (2.13, 3.78); p < 0.05, with marginal attenuation when controlled for inter‐caste economic disparities. Caste had an independent effect on anaemia and sickness absenteeism in school children, unexplained by inter‐caste economic disparities.

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“…There is a wealth of anthropological and economic evidence that these occupations are at the bottom of the heap in India (see Harriss-White 2010). Agricultural labour in India has the highest poverty rates among all occupational groups (Gang et al 2008) and lower castes in India's social hierarchy of labour are over-represented in this occupational group (Vaid 2012). This relationship between castes and specific occupations can be traced back to the jajmani system: a system of hereditary patron-client relationships between landed proprietors from the upper and middle castes and the bonded agricultural labourers from lower castes (Gang et al 2016;Dumont 1970;Bayly 1999).…”

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