We revisit the negative association between ethnic diversity and development. We show how the diversity-development association is conditional on spatial segregation. We introduce a new census-scale micro-dataset from the Indian state of Karnataka (n= 36.5 million rural residents). Using the...

We revisit the negative association between ethnic diversity and development. We show how the diversity-development association is conditional on spatial segregation. We introduce a new census-scale micro-dataset from the Indian state of Karnataka (n = 36.5 million rural residents). Using the...

We develop a sociologically and politically grounded multi-scale mensuration framework forresidential segregation in urban India. Our rich dataset that we use to illustrate our framework contains independent India's first census-scale enumeration (n ≈ 60million) and codingof elementary caste...

We present a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development. We develop a "scale-flip hypothesis" that formalizes how the political salience of diversity is contingent on the level of analysis. We also...

We present the first ever large-scale snapshot of urban residential segregation in India at the neighborhood-scale. Our analysis from 147 largest cities in contemporary India shows how caste-based residential segregation is independent of city size (our sample includes all cities in India with...

One of the normative promises of Indian urbanization is the potential breaking down of the rigidities that characterize traditional caste hierarchies in an agrarian regime. In particular, urbanization holds the promise of breaking down spatial barriers between traditional caste groups. Using a...

We present the first ever neighbourhood-scale portrait of caste-based residential segregation in Indian cities. Using 2011 enumeration block (EB) level census data for five major cities in India – Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai – we show how patterns of caste-based urban...