His research also encompasses social and environmental justice issues arising out of caste based discrimination in India.
She continues: "We remain concerned that there is insufficient evidence of caste based discrimination to require specific legislation.
Unless India abolishes caste based reservation and introduces a pure meritocracy like the western countries, it is difficult for India to march ahead.
Because India is historically caste based, in order to control for such caste based heterogeneity, the children are also grouped into "Scheduled Castes" representing the historically disadvantaged indigenous people and "Backward Class" representing the children from traditionally lower castes, with "Other Castes" as the reference group representing the more privileged caste.
The settlements in the city were mostly caste based.
Since November there's been a steady, if scant, stream of reports of caste based crimes from the entire country from Bihar to Maharashtra.
Working towards this end, women within Dalit castes have formed organisations such as the All India Dalit Women's Forum and the National Federation of Dalit Women and Dalit Solidarity, which focus on the gendered implications of caste based violence and oppression, such as the ways in which Dalit women suffer from urban poverty and displacement.
There was no change in the pattern of the caste based disparities in undernutrition between 1992 and 2005.
Examination of the ten genes that best distinguish the worker caste (based on genes highly expressed in both worker samples) identified genes involved in metabolism, chitin binding and defence (see Additional file 6: Tables S6c and S6d)).
In India, primary research was conducted in 4 villages in 2 districts of Rajasthan and focused on the intergenerational transfer of poverty, role of gender and caste based discrimination in maintaining poverty cycles and the role of government in breaking intergenerational poverty cycles (Bhargava et al. 2005).
The alliance of more than 20 parties included a number of smaller regional and caste-base parties, which exercised disproportionate influence in government, often holding the administration to ransom to gain concessions in their home states.
