Posts Tagged ‘ Research ’

Presentation at TISS

  • November 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Caste

We had a presentation at Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) on 13th Nov, 2009 where we presented our Research theme and preliminary data of 3 months. It was an awesome experience and off course one of the most memorable event!! It was a wonderful opportunity for both of us to discuss our work with [ READ MORE ]

Analysis of Data…

Analysis: We have started analyzing the data and have drawn charts to represent this: Pie-Charts representing Professions, Education and Location of Girls: Numbers of Girls in Caste Communities are surprisingly very less; the proportion is 81:19, where 19% stands for girls. Indeed the difference was found to be statistically significant at 0.01 level. Highest number [ READ MORE ]

Documenting virtual social networking spaces…

We visited caste related Communities. (Orkut as an example of virtual social networking site). We had searched these Communities by going on the search engine of the Communities and then typed the word “Caste”, we came across hundreds of communities and so were confused. We thought of developing patterns and categories in order to make [ READ MORE ]

Why did we choose this topic?

  • November 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Caste

Why did we choose this topic? PUKAR gave an opportunity to graduated youth Fellows of Youth Fellowship Program to take an advanced level research in order to study their one year project at much deeper, scientific and precise manner. We could not help miss this Opportunity. Sunil had already done one year research on “Understanding [ READ MORE ]

Caste on web

              We have started surfing net, we have found several sites and communities devoted to one specific castes and sub caste. We are surprised to find the number of sites, blogs, and communities dealing with caste issues. At first when we started thinking of this topic we were not sure if this topic really attracts [ READ MORE ]

Caste and Youth

Most of the youth do not believe in caste discrimination. In fact, they avoid speaking on “Caste” and “Religion” issues. They believe that speaking on Caste issue is for politicians. People feel that if they don’t believe in caste, “Caste System” abolishes its own existence. But, this is not the truth.”Caste alliances are fluid and [ READ MORE ]

About us…

We are team of researchers, looking into how India's caste system plays its prescribed role in social networking sites on the internet. If you have anything to say or contribute feel free to leave us a comment. We are always open to new ideas and suggestions.
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