Essays on state capacity, governance and public good by Manchanda, Stuti

“…It endeavors to understand the role of political empowerment of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), through the institutional provision of political reservation, in affecting communal violence. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Sudheesh, RC

“…<p>Landless Adivasis (officially categorised as Scheduled Tribes) of the southern Indian province of Kerala face insecure lives and livelihoods despite the presence of apparently generous welfare provisions. …”

Non-farm futures and the dispossessed: mapping manual labour in an industrial area in India by Chatterjee, M

“…In the manufacturing hub that develops, male and female members from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe groups carve out precarious manual labour opportunities. …”

Indigenous population and major depressive disorder in later life: a study based on the data from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India by Rashmi Rashmi, Shobhit Srivastava, T. Muhammad, Manish Kumar, Ronak Paul

“…The analytical sample included 30,637 older adults, among whom 5,025 and 25,612 belonged to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and non-Scheduled Tribe (non-ST) social groups, respectively. …”
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Caste and Religion Matters in Access to Housing, Drinking Water, and Toilets: Empirical Evidence from National Sample Surveys, India by Vinod Kumar Mishra

“…The results of logistic regression model and decomposition method used in the article shows that social identity-based discrimination reduces the sufficiency and quality of housing and basic services availed by marginalized social groups such as scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and religious minorities. It can be argued from the analysis that right to adequate housing in terms of good quality dwelling and access to drinking water and sanitation is adversely affected by social exclusion and discrimination experienced by marginalized social groups. …”
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Learning and Leading: Resistance, Subaltern Leadership and the Making of Two Bhil Community Leaders from the Narmada Valley, Western India by Vikramaditya Thakur

“…This paper studies subaltern agency and the changing nature of leadership in rural western India among the Bhil Scheduled Tribe or Adivasi group in the wake of the anti-dam movement initiated by urban middle-class activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA; also Save Narmada Campaign). …”
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Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment by Banerjee, Abhijit, Bertrand, Marianne, Datta, Saugato, Mullainathan, Sendhil

“…Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Caste) applicants for software jobs. …”
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Evolution of Government-funded health insurance for universal health coverage in India by Sweta Dubey, Swasti Deshpande, Lokesh Krishna, Siddhesh Zadey

“…Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people have low service utilization. Most hospitals providing services are private. …”
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Living in the forest as a pluriverse: nature conservation and indigeneity in India’s Western Ghats by Miho Ishii

“…In this situation, the Kunbi attempt to recover their legal rights to land and forest resources by invoking the Forest Rights Act and petitioning the state government to designate them as a scheduled tribe. Moreover, they struggle to maintain their emotional ties to the forest by creatively modifying their ritualistic hunting groups. …”
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Levels and determinants of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) status among reproductive age women of Tripura, North East India by Subrata Baidya, Rituparna Das

“…Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the age group and income of the family had a significant effect on the HbA1c status. Scheduled tribe women had 0.43 odds (0.22-0.81) of having high HbA1cstatus compared to women from general caste. …”
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Demographic studies and constraints of buffalo farming in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh by B.V.V. Satyanarayana Rao, A. Anitha, Jagadeeswara Rao, B. Subrahmanyeswari

“…Majority of buffalo milk producers in delta and upland areas belonged to other caste, but in agency area, most belonged to scheduled tribe. Buffalo farmers under the survey were educated (52.67%) and agriculture was their occupation supported by dairying. …”
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Health status of tribes of Uttar Pradesh with special reference to health-seeking behaviour of uncharted Tharu tribe: A mapping review by Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Rajni Kant, Ayush Mishra, Manoj Kumar, Atul Kumar Singhal, Sandeep Pathak

“…In 1967, this tribe was documented as a Scheduled Tribe by the Government of India. The present review aimed to map the health-seeking behaviour of the Tharu population and review other factors pertaining to their health such as socioeconomic, developmental, employment, education, etc. …”
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Socio‐economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia by Sankar Goswmai, Kishore K. Das

“…Christian population was at lower risk; and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Class categories were at higher risk of anemia. …”
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Non-communicable disease multimorbidity among tribal older adults in India: evidence from Study on Global AGEing and adult health, 2015 by Abhinav Sinha, Srikanta Kanungo, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Harpreet Kaur, Sanghamitra Pati

“…We included 522 participants aged ≥50 years who reported their caste to be ‘Scheduled Tribe' in the survey. A multivariable regression model assessed the association between multimorbidity and various attributes.ResultsArthritis, cataract, and hypertension were the most common chronic conditions. …”
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Correlates of poor self-rated health among school-going adolescent girls in urban Varanasi, India by Ratna Patel, Dhananjay W. Bansod

“…Adolescent girls from Other Backward Class (OBC) [OR: 0.39; 95% CI: .18-.85] and Others caste [OR: 0.58; 95% CI: .23–0.87] were less likely to report poor SRH than their Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) counterparts. Girls residing in households where number of daughters were more than sons were more likely to report poor SRH [OR: 7.8; 95% CI: 1.5–39.5] than girls who belonged to the daughters only households. …”
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STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY by Anirban Ghosh

“…On one hand, the learners of this system are adult; on the other hand, they belong to disadvantaged groups like dropouts, scheduled cast, scheduled tribe, women, minorities, house wives etc. Again, they are separated from teacher as well as from the Institutes under open and distance learning system, so they desperately need support before, during and even after their study. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of underweight and overweight/obesity among women in India: results from the National Family Health Survey 2015&ndash;2016 by Pengpid S, Peltzer K

“…In adjusted multinomial logistic regression, younger age, lower education, lower wealth status, not eating daily fruits, vegetables, fried food, belonging to the scheduled tribe and tobacco use were associated with underweight, while older age, higher education, higher wealth, belonging to other backward class or other, urban residence, daily fruit consumption, daily fried food consumption, having hypertension, heart disease and high or very high blood glucose levels were associated with overweight or obesity. …”
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Wealth Status and Health Insurance Enrollment in India: An Empirical Analysis by Preshit Nemdas Ambade, Joe Gerald, Tauhidur Rahman

“…In rural areas, poor Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households are more likely to be enrolled in public HI than the general Caste households. …”
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A comparative study on psychological distress and associated factors among mothers of severely acute malnourished children belonging to urban and rural area of Central India by Shobhana Yadav, Yogesh Shukla

“…Majority of the mothers 231 (51.3%) were from Scheduled Tribe caste followed by 123 (27.3%) other Backward Class caste. …”
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Demographic and Geographic Distribution of Sickle Cell Disease in Gondia District of Central India; A Hospital Based Study by Dr. Pallavi Janrao Kamble1 , Dr. Sankalp Kumar Tripathi2 *

“…Schedule casts have highest number of patients followed by other backward classes and schedule tribes. Conclusion: Maximum number of sickle cell patients was from Gondia block followed by Arjuni Morgaon and Sadak Arjuni block. …”
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