Changing characteristics of the caste system in India by D.A.P. Sharma

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An introduction to the basic elements of the caste system of India by Vina M. Goghari, Mavis Kusi

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The Caste System of India and Traces of The Classic Indian Literature by Esra BÜYÜKBAHÇECİ

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Y-chromosomal insights into the genetic impact of the caste system in India. by Zerjal, T, Pandya, A, Thangaraj, K, Ling, E, Kearley, J, Bertoneri, S, Paracchini, S, Singh, L, Tyler-Smith, C

Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014) by Yashpal A. Jogdand, Sammyh S. Khan, Arvind Kumar Mishra

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Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class by Ramkrishna Mukherjee

“…In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the relation of people to land for production (and not for revenue receiving, household living, etc.), and (2) the caste system of India, viz. the jati strati?cation of society.…”
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Songs of the Bauls: Voices from the Margins as Transformative Infrastructures by Uttaran Dutta, Mohan Jyoti Dutta

“…They identify themselves outside of any organized religion or established caste system in India, and therefore are constituted at the margins of contemporary global South. …”
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Locating Violence in Kusum Kumar’s Suno Shefali (Listen Shefali) by Vikram Singh Thakur

“…The play also predates several important Indian plays, especially by the male playwright, that deal with the problems of caste system in India. In this essay, I will attempt to study various forms of violence committed on a Dalit woman at the intersection of gender, caste and class in Kumar’s Listen Shefali using theoretical concepts like Kimberle Crenshaw’s ‘intersectionality’, Johan Galtung’s ‘structural violence’, M. …”
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Anti-caste Memes as Cultural Archives of Resistance by Madhavi Shivaprasad, Shubhangani Jain

“… In this article, we make a case for looking at memes as potential digital cultural heritage artefacts to counter hegemonic narratives around the caste system in India. We reflect on this potentiality of memes by evaluating how three anti-caste Facebook meme pages responded to protests against the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens (CAA-NRC) from December 2019 to March 2020. …”
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Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA by Reddy B Mohan, Bhaskar Lakkakula VKS, Singh Vijay, Chaubey Gyaneshwer, Thangaraj Kumarasamy, Thanseem Ismail, Reddy Alla G, Singh Lalji

“…The origin of the caste system in India is a matter of debate with many linguists and anthropologists suggesting that it began with the arrival of Indo-European speakers from Central Asia about 3500 years ago. …”
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