Roland, you could have called it clas-te (a mix of class and caste)! As Divya Vaid points out below [ http://www.yale.edu/ciqle/CIQLEPAPERS/CasteandClass.Vaid.pdf] there is some "congruence" between the two! FN
On 11 January 2012 02:01, Roland Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > I did indeed mean caste. My error in using the less pernicious 'class'. Using the 2004 Indian National Election Study data from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, we find that while the relation between caste and class is not completely straightforward, a tentative picture of congruence between the two does appear; High Castes are seen to be concentrated in the higher social classes like the professional, large business and farming classes. Also, the association between caste and class origins is not seen to weaken over time or at least not by very much. Furthermore, lower castes like the Scheduled Castes seem to be experiencing difficulty in gaining upward class mobility though conversely High Castes are not cushioned from the forces of downward class mobility. -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 [email protected] Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
