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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

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  • Hemanshu Kumar
  • Rohini Somanthan

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Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these categories.

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  • Hemanshu Kumar & Rohini Somanthan, 2016. "Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-85, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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