Feeding practices refer generally to meet nutritional and immunological needs of the baby at different stages of child growth. A study of feeding practices was carried out on a sample of 100 infants in the age group of 5 months to 2 years. The results have revealed that factors like income level and caste of the family, had direct bearing on these practices. Caste was found to have direct impac...

A colony of social insects is not only an aggregation of individuals but also a functional unit. To achieve adaptive social behavior in fluctuating environmental conditions, in addition to coordination of physiological status in each individual, the whole colony is coordinated by interactions among colony members. The study on the regulation of social-insect colonies is termed "social physiolog...

Polistes paper wasps are models for understanding conditions that may have characterized the origin of worker and queen castes and, therefore, the origin of paper wasp sociality. Polistes is "primitively eusocial" by virtue of having context-dependent caste determination and no morphological differences between castes. Even so, Polistes colonies have a temporal pattern in which most female larv...

Poverty and social exclusion are important socio-economic variables which are often taken for granted while considering ill-health effects. Social exclusion mainly refers to the inability of our society to keep all groups and individuals within reach of what we expect as society to realize their full potential. Marginalization of certain groups or classes occurs in most societies including deve...

When choosing what cases to investigate, do the police discriminate on basis of caste and class? We employ a conjoint design evaluate biases in officers’ preferences for investigation based perpetrator attributes. Conducting survey law enforcement officers Nepal, we find evidence discriminatory practices. Absent constraining protocols that reduce officer discretion, are more likely target offen...

Caste conflict theory predicts that worker-destined individuals in insect colonies may try to develop as queens in order to gain greater direct reproduction. In situations where females can determine their own caste fate ( self-determination ), this is expected to lead to overproduction of queens. Theoretical predictions are supported by patterns of queen production in Melipona stingless bees. ...

Caste is the most important phenomenon in Hindu religion. Despite more than seventy years of democratisation, caste still dominant reality every Hindu. There have been serious attempts to make sense caste's persistence existing literature (e.g. Dumont: 1988, Srinivas: 1977; Jodhka, 2015; Teltumbde, 2011; Dirks; 2001; Guru, 2011). The peculiarity India that it intends be secular public space. Ho...

• Patients statistically discriminate doctors by gender in an experiment India Caste quotas for college seats increase discrimination of low-caste reduce high-caste worsen overall inequality professionals Using a field where patients are randomly assigned to rank among set physicians the same but with different castes and years experience, we show that differences patients’ physician choices co...

Caste is a complex ontological construction. Despite several anti-caste movements and constitutional provisions, caste exists in the Indian psyche as part of everyday life. Even advent globalization, continues to foster social economic inequalities exclusion newer forms perpetuates violence. The available research on caste-based stigma humiliation provides limited understanding it deals with Da...