Sociogenomics is an emerging field that employs genomics to address the evolution and underlying mechanisms regulating social living. Studies on highly social (often called eusocial) insects have contributed to advances in sociogenomics. Eusocial insects exhibit extreme cooperation characterized by a division of labor with reproductive queen and non-reproductive worker castes. Eusociality has e...

This study analyses the role of caste firms in getting finance or credit from different financial sources Jharkhand. We find that establishments belonging to Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Caste (SC) owners have a lower probability like government, institutions, non-financial money lenders.

The article critiques the traversal politics of caste and contagion through a critical dissection what comes as primarily biomedical excess outbreak—the dead body. It elucidates upon becoming body into an untouchable where its “right to die with dignity” is deferred. reasons this stigmatisation deceased result anxiety ensued in living population facing outbreak crisis. Through close textual rea...

How much are individuals willing to pay for privileged status in a society with systemic discrimination? Utilizing unique data on indentured Indians Fiji paying return India, I calculate how upper-caste were historically their status. show the lower bound of value uppermost castes north India equaled almost 2.5 years' gross wages. The ordering follows hypothesized inter-caste hierarchies and sh...

But the conclusion that he arrives at is that the Marxian system is as much an idealistic system, an instrument of social reorganisation, as the Indian system of four varnas happened to be in the past. One may, of course, claim that Marx worked for 'human emancipation, while Mann worked for preserving the rights ami privileges of Brahmins. That is, however, an argument which can he modified and...

background: to seek pleasure is man’s innate nature. in his search for gratification, man has discovered a world of substances that intoxicated him. those who fell within its trap, their life changed, their families aggrieved and they shrank from company. the addiction remained alone in the end. to many death was a relief. methods: a community based cross-sectional study was conducted in the ca...

The contact hypothesis posits that having diverse neighbours may reduce one’s intergroup prejudice. This is difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods. Using a slum relocation programme in India randomly assigned neighbours, I examine the effects of exposure other-caste on trust and attitudes towards members other castes. Combining administrative data housing assignment wi...

Caste has always been a subject of socio-political segregation in India. Inequality across caste is prominent for varying health and development outcomes, which less researched till date. Four rounds National Family Health Surveys (1–4) conducted the last 25 years are analysed to portray fertility mortality differentials castes/ tribes. The article signifies, that distinct inter intra-caste dif...

This paper explores the social and political imperatives in the sphere of public policy relating to social justice. In India, the colonial legacy and post-colonial social and political pressures sustained the appropriation of ‘caste’ category in allocating public resources to the backward class of citizens. For several reasons, ‘economic’ category could not be placed in allocating resources. Th...