We study the relationship between culture and the efficiency of coordination. In a field experiment in India, men from high and low castes repeatedly played a simple coordination game with efficient and inefficient equilibria. Compared to their lowcaste counterparts, the high-caste men coordinated far less efficiently. We trace the divergence in outcomes to how individuals respond to the low pa...

The paper introduces porcine bodies as landscapes upon which caste wildness, primitive, or savage are inscribed and asserted in India, by the Hindu Right Dalit Right, to respectively advance parochial nationalisms. general obscuration of pig violent nationalist discourses, is itself due her inherent status impure/polluting. Vedic scriptures endorse a civilizational rhetoric cows Brahminical div...

Two new species of Tetramorium Mayr, namely Tetramorium shivalikensesp. n. and Tetramorium triangulatumsp. n. are described. Tetramorium triangulatumsp. n. belongs to the inglebyi-species group and is described based on worker, queen and male caste, while Tetramorium shivalikensesp. n. belongs to the ciliatum-species group and is described based on worker caste only. Three species viz., Tetramo...

Termite workers and soldiers differ markedly in their morphology and behaviour. We sought evidence for genetic influences on caste determination in the giant northern termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis , by investigating if workers and soldiers from the same colony differed genetically. The genotypes of 795 termites from 11 distinct colonies were assayed at six polymorphic microsatellite loci. W...