Strategic manipulation of caste identity signals

This dissertation uses signalling theory to explain and understand how people in India manage and manipulate caste and caste-related group identity signs and signals to convey their respective group types to others accurately. It is composed of four stand-alone, but related, empirical chapters. The...

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Main Author: Mamidi, Pavan
Published: University of Oxford 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.572525