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Caste Status

Caste Status is a sociolegal construct denoting an individual's position within a rigid, hereditary hierarchy that determines legal rights, social privileges, and occupational roles in societies where such stratification is institutionalized.

562

Publications

27.4K

Citations

951

Authors

420

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

87

Variants

Caste Position

Parents

Publications

562

Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications.

Gerald D. Berreman, Louis Dumont · Man · 1971 · 2.3K citations

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Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations

M. Bamshad · Genome Research · 2001 · 412 citations

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Why Dowry Payments Declined with Modernization in Europe but Are Rising in India

Siwan Anderson · Journal of Political Economy · 2003 · 293 citations

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Causes of stigma and discrimination associated with tuberculosis in Nepal: a qualitative study

Sushil Baral, Deepak Kumar Karki, James Newell · BMC Public Health · 2007 · 278 citations · Full text

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The relation between caste ratios and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Edward O. Wilson · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1984 · 270 citations

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Authors

951

  1. RZ
    Ronaldo Zucchi

    Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

    11 publications · 228 citations

    10

    h-index

  2. FB
    Fernando Barbosa Noll

    Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Brazil

    9 publications · 180 citations

    9

    h-index

  3. AD
    Ashwini Deshpande

    Ashoka University, India

    9 publications · 769 citations

    9

    h-index

  4. CJ
    C. J. Fuller

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 262 citations

    6

    h-index

  5. AC
    Adrián C. Mayer

    SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 233 citations

    6

    h-index

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Institutions

420

  1. University of Delhi

    New Delhi, India

    11 h-index

    13 publications

    640 citations

  2. Jawaharlal Nehru University

    New Delhi, India

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    455 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    418 citations

  6. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    7 h-index

    21 publications

    796 citations

  7. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    924 citations

  8. International Institute for Population Sciences

    Mumbai, India

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    316 citations

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Venues

  1. Contributions to Indian Sociology

    20 publications · 557 citations

    13

    h-index

  2. Man

    13 publications · 3K citations

    13

    h-index

  3. Pacific Affairs

    13 publications · 877 citations

    12

    h-index

  4. The Journal of Asian Studies

    JAS · 13 publications · 551 citations

    12

    h-index

  5. PubMed

    Repository · 7 publications · 305 citations

    7

    h-index

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