Caste at Birth? Redefining Disparity in India

By Ashwin Deshpande. 2001

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Poverty In Rural India: Caste And Tribe (2008, unknown): “The NSS data is a cross-section of a geographically distributed random sample of house- 3See also the studies by Deshpande (2000, 2001) and Meenakshi and Ray (2002), which examine the economic status of scheduled castes and tribes.”
Evidence from India (2017, unknown): “…case for such analysis not only because it is the second most populous country in the world, but also because it has pronounced horizontal inequality (Borooah 2005; Deshpande 2001; Zacharias and Vakulabharanam 2011) and because it adopted one of the most stringent lockdown policies in the world.”
Caste, Inequality, and Poverty in India (2005, background): “The second group is concerned with measuring the degree of economic disparity between, on the one hand, SC and ST persons/households and, on the other hand, non-SC/ST persons/households (Gang et al., 2002; Deshpande, 2000a; Saggar and Pan, 1994).”
Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999 (2006, methodology): “Since India’s independence, the socioeconomic conditions of the lower castes seem to have shown some improvements due to the abolition of untouchability and an increase in their political power (Ramaswamy 1984; Deshpande 2001).”
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid (2012, background): “There is by now considerable evidence that people from the lower castes (Scheduled Castes, SC, or Dalits) and tribes (Scheduled Tribes, ST) have lower living standards than non-SC/ST people (Deshpande, 2001; Dréze and Sen, 2002; Kijima, 2006).”
Isolated by Caste: Neighbourhood-Scale Residential Segregation in Indian Metros (2018, background): “Rights, access, citizenship and privileges of an individual are often tied to his or her membership of a particular caste (Deshpande 2000, 2001; Thorat, Banerjee, Mishra, & Rizvi 2015; Thorat & Neuman 2012).”