The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

By Ashwin Deshpande. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics & Operations Research, Social Sciences & Humanities

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1. Tushar Agrawal
2. T. Weisskopf
3. Ashwin Deshpande

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Tushar Agrawal
2. T. Weisskopf
3. Ashwin Deshpande
4. Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

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1. Tushar Agrawal
2. T. Weisskopf
3. Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
4. Ashwin Deshpande
5. Ashwin Rajadesingan
6. Ramaswami Mahalingam
7. David Jurgens
8. Sunipa Dev

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2. T. Weisskopf
3. Ashwin Deshpande
4. Sunipa Dev

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2. T. Weisskopf
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Citations in the corpus

• Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP: The Case of India (2022, background): “Despite the intended eradication of caste-based discrimination envisioned decades ago (Ambedkar, 2014), lower rungs of the caste hierarchy continue to have low literacy rates, misrepresentation, poverty, low technology access, and exclusion in language data (Deshpande, 2011; Kamath, 2018; Krishna et”
• Affirmative Action and Productivity in the Indian Railways (2016, methodology): “In this paper we report on an earlier study (Deshpande and Weisskopf 2014) in which we subjected this argument to rigorous empirical testing, in the context of a particularly important case of AA that has implications for many similar AA policies around the world. Rev Black Polit Econ (2016) 43:245–”
• Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles (2019, background): “This form of discrimination greatly reduces social and economic mobility among these groups and increases inequality in society (Deshpande 2011; Thorat and Neuman 2012).”
• Returns to education in India: Some recent evidence (2012, positive): “The Indian society is divided into various caste divisions which represent a system of social stratification (Deshpande 2011).”
• Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India (2021, background): “These caste groups have been historically marginalised both economically and socially (See Deshpande 2011).”
• Caste in the News: A Computational Analysis of Indian Newspapers (2019, background): “Caste plays an important role in economic mobility (Deshpande, 2011).”