Does Caste Still Define Disparity? A Look at Inequality in Kerala, India

By Ashwin Deshpande. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India (2013, background): “Castebased inequality is considered notoriously durable and has been the subject of a lot of work across the social sciences (e.g. Dumont 1966, Deshpande 2000).”
• 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): “When all the five 3 Readers interested in detailed evolution of the Indian caste system can turn to the work by Deshpande (2000).”
• Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999 (2006, background): “…the levels of living of scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST), many studies have reported that the disparities of living standards with the non-SC/ST still remain (Bhengra, Bijoy, and Lutthui 1999; Deshpande 2000; Dreze and Sen 2002; Mosse et al. 2002; Rogaly et al. 2002; Thorat 2002).”
• 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).”
• Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, unknown): “23While comparisons based on caste-dominance was not the focus of the Drèze et al. (1997) study, the village where data was collected – Palanpur – would qualify as an Others-dominated village in view of the land-ownership patterns they document.”