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1Research paperSocial Exclusion and Mental Health: The Unexplored Aftermath of Caste-based Discrimination and Violencehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971333615593446GC PalPyschology and Developing SocietiesCasteIn the Indian context, the caste identity has been a dominant factor in the discourse of social exclusion. This is largely due to the pervasiveness of the caste-based discrimination and violence. The Indian psychological literature has provided considerable insights into psychological attributes of caste groups and its linkage to their dis(advantage). However, there are unexplored questions in the social science literature of social exclusion which are fundamental to psychological research. How caste-based discrimination and violence are socio-psychological constructs? How these social behaviours have exclusionary consequences to effect on mental health of the lower caste groups? An understanding of these questions would have more to offer to the need for strategic social interventions. This article focuses on the possible functions that caste-based discrimination and violence perform, the adverse social and psychological consequences of such social behaviours and their implications for the social exclusion and mental health of the lower caste groups. Drawing evidence from empirical research and relevant literature on caste-based discrimination and violence, and social exclusion, the article argues that these social behaviours are not just extreme actions but patterns of distancing lower caste groups from social relationships to create threatening social conditions. These accentuate social exclusion and adversely affect their mental health. Any support services in the form of reliefs or compensations for the victims may not stamp out negative social and psychological consequences for long. Both legal and social interventions need to focus on human security—economic, social and psychological—in the process of promotion of social justice and human development.
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2Research PaperMinds of Caste - Discrimination and its effects https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292185275_Minds_of_caste_-_Discrimination_and_its_affectsSushrut Jadhav, David Mosse, Ned Dostaler
Anthropology TodayUniversity of PennsylvaniaCasteThis guest editorial considers the relevance of caste in today's world in terms of ‘castes of mind’.
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3Research PaperDeprivation, discrimination, human rights violation, and mental health of the deprivedhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/49704335_Deprivation_discrimination_human_rights_violation_and_mental_health_of_the_deprivedR. C. Jiloha Indian Journal of Psychiatry GB Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College and Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of
Delhi		CasteThe Indian subcontinent has been likened to a deep net into which various races and people have drifted and been caught in the remote past and their diverse origins have dictated variety. Geographical conditions of the sub-continent forced these varied people to stay together in a multiple society imposing on them what has been described by historians as ‘Unity in Diversity’ having cultural homogeneity
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4Research PaperEVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE: Women's health in a rural community in Kerala, India: do caste and socioeconomic position matter?https://www.jstor.org/stable/40665999K S Mohindra, Slim Haddad and D NarayanaJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979-)
Vol. 60, No. 12 (December 2006), pp. 1020-1026 (7 pages)		CasteGenderEven in a relatively egalitarian state in India, there are caste and socioeconomic inequalities in women's health. Implementing interventions that concomitantly deal with caste and socioeconomic disparities will likely produce more equitable results than targeting either type of inequality in isolation.
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5Research PaperDALITS’ PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Status, Root causes and Challenges		http://www.mfcindia.org/main/bgpapers/bgpapers2014/am/bgpap2014n.pdfA. RamaiahTISS, MumbaiCasteAs long as caste prejudice continues to be a reality in Indian society, the Dalits would continue to suffer from both physical and mental illness. Since both the so-called lower castes/Dalits and the so-called upper castes suffer from caste delusion, annihilation of caste would, no doubt, be a better treatment for both. Unless this problem is addressed urgently, Indians would continue to fight among themselves on caste basis and fraternity among Indians would ever remain a
distant dream.
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6Research PaperThe mental health impact of caste and structural inequalities in higher education in Indiahttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363461520963862Vignapana Komanapalli, Deepa RaoSage JournalsCasteThis study aimed to identify how mental health practice and policy in India can better address the needs of Dalit women and men in Indian institutions of higher education. Left unexamined, psychiatric and mental health practices and policies have become complicit in a legal and political network that actively denies the reality of caste discrimination in modern India. Frequently, Dalit students who choose to end their lives are described as having personal problems and depression, which enables institutional authorities to circumvent legal justice against caste discrimination and violence. Using an anthropological methodology of close readings of Dalit biographies and a review of ethnographic research, government reports, and online documentaries on the experiences of Dalit men and women, this study suggests that mental health practice and policy can change confidentiality laws, decriminalize student support groups, and build networks of institutional and policy support for Dalit students
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7Conference PaperCaste, Stigma, and Mental Well-being: from transition to conversionhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/262932092_Caste_Stigma_and_Mental_Well-being_from_transition_to_conversionJadhav, Sushrut, Davar, Bhargavi, Jain, Sumeet, Shinde, SwatiMcGill University, CanadaCasteDalit ‘untouchables’ in the Indian subcontinent are largely excluded from full participation in everyday social life. They have poorer health outcomes compared to the general population, and are subject to degradation, humiliation and violent atrocities. Yet there is a striking absence of research examining the stigma of Dalit caste identity and its impact on mental well-being of Dalit ‘untouchables’. The paper addresses the nature of stigma associated with being an ‘untouchable’ and how this shifts following conversion to Buddhism. This pilot ethnographic and focus group study was situated in an urban Dalit slum of Pune city, Maharashtra state, India by a multi-caste, multi-disciplinary team of health professionals and social scientists. Results suggest that the nature of distress related to caste discrimination is both psychological and cultural, with an internalisation of the ‘gaze’ of upper castes, and spatial-temporal dimensions within which both individual and institutional discrimination operates. Whilst Dalits who have not converted tended to aspire towards a sanskritised identity, Dalit converted to Buddhism appear to have carved out a political identity to contest the stigma. The strategies employed to deal with discrimination include instrumental actions and political transformation. Dalit conversion to Buddhism suggests ‘well-being’ is gained through the development of a dignity that results in a more articulate and political identity that contest existing ideas of modernity in India. The authors conclude that the phenomenon of conversion is not absolute. The paper suggest further research towards an examination of cultural landscapes that mediate the stigma of ‘untouchability’; ethnographic studies of innovative movements that contest and invert Dalit caste identity; and comparison of caste related & cultural identity stigma, with stigma associated with more formal mental or physical disorders that have been extensively researched. Furthermore, a study of ‘castes’ within Indian Buddhists may identify more chronic markers of caste related stigma. This has implications towards interventions that directly address well-being of ‘untouchables’ in India.
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8ThesisAN EXPLORATION OF FOUR DALIT NARRATIVES
AS TRAUMA LITERATURE		https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84912002.pdfUPAASANA SURESHNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORECasteLiteratureThe discussions in the chapters illuminate how Dalit trauma is truly unique, because their trauma is not caused by environmental factors, like
famines or droughts, or the trauma inflicted by one person on another; it is trauma that is engendered by the social institution of the caste system, and was religiously sanctioned for centuries, and as Bama shows, even transcends the boundaries of religion. While untouchability has been legally abolished for many decades now, and the position of Dalits in cities at least has improved, these autobiographies are a testimony to the centuries of suffering and trauma that Dalits had to endure. Therefore, I hope to have clearly indicated the various reasons why Dalit autobiographies should be considered as Trauma
Literature.
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9Research PaperDeveloping a Mental Health Measurement Strategy to Capture Psychological Problems among Lower Caste Adolescent Girls in Rural, South India.https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4648943/Mazzuca, April; Nagarchi, Dawood; Ramanaik, Satyanarayana; Raghavendra, T; Javalkar, Prakash; Rotti, Sarojini; Bhattacharjee, Parinita; Isac, Shajy; Cohen, Alex; Beattie, TaraLSHTM Research Online
Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and DevelopmentCasteGenderAdolescent girls vulnerable to early marriage and school dropout in rural India may be at elevated risk of psychosocial problems. However, few screening instruments have been culturally adapted and validated to measure this risk. This paper describes the process by which the Primary Health Questionnaire PHQ-9, a screening instrument for depression, was tested for cultural validity as part of the Samata evaluation - an intervention to support low caste adolescent girls in rural south India to attend and complete secondary school and to delay marriage until adulthood. Three focus groups discussions (FGDs) were held with 20 adolescent girls and six outreach workers of the Samata programme in rural north Karnataka, south India. The FGDs were used to explore local expressions of psychosocial problems and to understand the acceptability and appropriateness of PHQ-9 items. A thematic content analysis was conducted on the transcripts of the FGDs. Descriptions of local expressions of psychosocial problems generally matched the items on the PHQ-9. However, not all representations of psychological symptoms were captured by this tool. Persistent worry, loneliness and isolation, and externalised behaviours were also described by participants as common expressions of psychosocial distress. Based on the limitations of translation methods, local stakeholders must be involved in evaluating the cultural appropriateness of mental health screening tools. The current research demonstrates a strategy by which to assess the cultural validity of Western psychiatric instruments with key stakeholders in low- and middle-income settings.
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10ThesisINFLUENCE OF CASTE SYSTEM ON SELF-ESTEEM AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCEhttps://edoc.unibas.ch/56461/1/Disseration%20Boby.pdfBoby Xavier ThaiparambilDepartment of Psychology at the University of BaselCasteThese publications contribute a developing research in the field of education in India. It identifies the prevailing issues that influence education system in India such as the quality of education, socio-economic factors and social-stratifications/caste. And points out education as the remedy to weed out social-evil from Indian society. And in order to achieve this, the study recommends income and merit based reservation system and actions to encourage social connections to overcome psychological consequences of social-stratification and thus to cultivate caste/class-insensitive education.
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11BookHumiliation
Claims and Context
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/humiliation-9780198074922?cc=us&lang=en&Gopal GuruOxford University PressCasteA pioneering work in the field of political and moral theory, Humiliation explores the complex and varied meanings, contexts, forms, and languages of humiliation within an interdisciplinary framework. While humiliation as a theme has found expression in both nationalist and socio-political thought in modern India, this is the first time it has been systematically studied.
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