Untouchability and everyday social exclusion
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Caste and structural casteism in India
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Local jati hierarchies and graded inequality
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Caste endogamy and marriage-market closure
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Coercion, ostracism and violence against inter-caste couples
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Family, caste-panchayat and community enforcement of caste boundaries
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Purity-and-pollution rules governing food, touch, commensality and proximity
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Surname, name, accent, locality and social-network caste signalling
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Forced caste disclosure, concealment and “passing” in institutions
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Intra-Dalit, intra-SC, intra-OBC and sub-caste hierarchies
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Persistence or transformation of caste after religious conversion
Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
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Caste-segregated village settlement patterns and Dalit hamlets
Land, settlement and public space
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Urban residential segregation and caste concentration by ward or neighborhood
Land, settlement and public space
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Unequal infrastructure in caste-segregated settlements
Land, settlement and public space
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Landlessness and caste concentration of agricultural land ownership
Land, settlement and public space
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Tenancy, sharecropping and insecure land rights
Land, settlement and public space
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Dispossession or encroachment of assigned, common, community and forest lands
Land, settlement and public space
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Unequal access to water sources, roads, sanitation and common property
Land, settlement and public space
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Exclusion from shops, eateries, salons and other public accommodations
Land, settlement and public space
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Temple, religious-site, burial-ground and cremation-ground access
Land, settlement and public space
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Rental, home-purchase, relocation and disaster-rehabilitation discrimination
Land, settlement and public space
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Hereditary occupational assignment and occupational closure
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Manual scavenging
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Sewer and septic-tank deaths and hazardous sanitation work
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Caste concentration in sanitation, waste work, leather work and carcass disposal
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Bonded, attached and debt-linked labor
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Unpaid or underpaid customary caste-service obligations
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Agricultural wage discrimination, labor coercion and retaliatory exclusion
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Hiring discrimination and formal-sector occupational segregation
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Promotion ceilings, wealth inheritance and intergenerational economic mobility
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Exclusion from credit, entrepreneurship, procurement, supply chains and markets
Labor, occupation, wealth and markets
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Anganwadi and early-childhood access and discrimination
Education and knowledge formation
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School admission, enrollment and documentation barriers
Education and knowledge formation
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Segregation in classroom seating, meals, water and assigned tasks
Education and knowledge formation
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Teacher prejudice, humiliation, low expectations and corporal punishment
Education and knowledge formation
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Attendance, dropout and primary-to-secondary transition gaps
Education and knowledge formation
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Learning-outcome and school-quality disparities
Education and knowledge formation
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Scholarship, hostel, fee-waiver and certificate-administration failures
Education and knowledge formation
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Coaching, entrance-examination and digital-learning inequalities
Education and knowledge formation
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Peer exclusion, disciplinary bias and institutional discrimination in higher education
Education and knowledge formation
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Underrepresentation among faculty, researchers, administrators and institutional leaders
Education and knowledge formation
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Maternal-health and maternal-mortality disparities
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Infant, child and preventable mortality disparities
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Malnutrition, anemia and household food-security disparities
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Discrimination in hospitals, clinics and primary health centers
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Unequal or segregated frontline health-service delivery
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Reproductive autonomy, contraception and sterilization bias
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Mental-health harms, humiliation, trauma and suicide risk
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Compounding of caste and disability
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Exclusion from ration cards, pensions, insurance and social-protection programs
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Disproportionate sanitation, pollution, unsafe-water, housing and climate exposure
Health, nutrition, welfare and environmental burden
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Atrocities against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Sexual violence against Dalit and Adivasi women and girls
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Caste-based social and economic boycotts
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Collective punishment and retaliatory attacks on settlements or families
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Violence arising from land claims, wage demands, political participation or social assertion
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Refusal or delay in FIR registration and misclassification of offences
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Investigation quality, evidence preservation and charge-sheet delays
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Bail, prosecution, trial delay, conviction and sentencing outcomes
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Witness intimidation, victim compensation and rehabilitation failures
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Custodial violence, prison discrimination and unequal legal aid
Violence, coercion and access to justice
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Reservation implementation and backlog vacancies
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Reservation evasion through outsourcing, contracting and privatization
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Caste-certificate denial, classification disputes, fraudulent claims and gatekeeping
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Representation in civil services and senior bureaucracy
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Representation in the judiciary, police, prosecution and legal profession
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Representation in Parliament, state legislatures and local government
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Proxy control or coercion of representatives elected from reserved seats
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Dominant-caste capture of panchayats, municipalities and local resources
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Allocation, diversion and underuse of SC/ST development funding
Political, administrative and institutional power
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Effectiveness of commissions, grievance mechanisms and institutional accountability
Political, administrative and institutional power
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“Merit” ideology, reservation stigma and anti-reservation backlash
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Casteist slurs, jokes, humiliation and normalized everyday language
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Textbook omission or sanitization of caste history
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Erasure of anti-caste thinkers, movements, memorials and intellectual traditions
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Media ownership and newsroom representation
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Caste stereotypes in film, television, advertising and popular culture
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Gatekeeping in academia, publishing, think tanks and knowledge production
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Priesthood, religious authority and ritual exclusion
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Appropriation or devaluation of Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi cultures and labor
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Representation in arts, sports, cultural institutions, juries and awards
Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
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Caste discrimination in corporate and technology workplaces
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Referral, alumni, professional-network and mentorship exclusion
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Caste bias in gig work, ratings, customer decisions and platform allocation
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Algorithmic use of surnames, geography, language and networks as caste proxies
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Online caste hate, harassment, threats, doxxing and misinformation
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Caste filters and ranking on matrimonial and dating platforms
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Urban casteism concealed as class, merit, language, etiquette or “culture fit”
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Discrimination affecting migrants, hostels, shared housing and mobile workers
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Caste reproduction in diaspora organizations and transnational companies
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Absence of caste from corporate disclosure, DEI, complaints and risk controls
Cities, corporations, technology and transnational reproduction
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Dalit women and caste-gender-patriarchy intersections
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Adivasi distinctness and interaction between caste, tribe, land and indigeneity
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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OBC heterogeneity, dominant-caste power and exclusion of most-backward groups
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Caste among Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and other religious communities
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi experiences
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Caste vulnerabilities across childhood, youth, old age and migration
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Anti-caste organizing, labor organization, civic space and retaliation
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Caste enumeration, undercounting, missing jati-level data and incompatible classifications
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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Effectiveness of reservations, redistribution, anti-discrimination law and enforcement
Intersectionality, differentiation, mobilization and measurement
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