India. The Chettiars, a merchant-banking caste, relied on religious homogeneity as well as an endogamous marriage rule …-enforced financial contracts, this paper also represents a novel approach to interpreting the social institution of caste, as seen …

This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing the productivity of … women in complementing their husbands’ skills. Its interesting to know the emergence of caste system its hereditary nature …, its insistence on endogamy (marriage only within castes), and its hierarchical character. [BREAD Working Paper No. 367 …

intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …

considering the weight of social identity (i.e., caste and gender). Using a panel dataset built from an original household survey …

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are … for an understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, and for the targeting of anti-poverty programmes. … grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste we find patterns that are consistent with existing …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … the poorest and lowest-caste households have the heaviest borrowing responsibilities, managing the highest proportions of … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …