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caste

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Caste Studies

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Caste is a complex socio-cultural phenomenon and a key concept across various academic disciplines, investigating systems of social stratification characterized by hereditary membership, strict endogamy, hierarchical ordering, and ascribed status, examining their historical origins, structural maintenance, and enduring effects on social relations, power, and inequality.

Top Authors

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CJ

University of Edinburgh

CJ

London School of Economics and Political Science

GD

University of California, Berkeley

CJ

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

RT

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Top Institutions

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University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, United States

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, United States

University of Delhi

New Delhi, India