Caste, Prejudice, and the Individual

adjectives Allport Ambedkar Antilocution ascribed status attitudinal social distance Bauddhas behaviour believe Brah Brahmins and Marathas Buddhism caste membership caste system casteism Chambhars Chapter college students commensal compared conversion described Deshastha Brahmins different castes discrimination DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSES ethnocentrism evaluation favourable feel Harijan students Hindu Hinduism ideal identify India indicate individual influence of caste ingroup attitudes ingroup image ingroups and outgroups intelligence intercaste intercaste relations Kokanastha Brahmins low status Maharashtra Mahars Maratha students Marathas and Harijans marriages measure median scores Muslim non-Brahmins observations outgroup images personality political Poona City prejudice present study problem profile diagram representing psychological question reference regard religion religious religious conversion reported ritual salience sample Satyashodhak Samaj scale Semantic Differential Shudras significant Social Psychology social status stereotypes subcaste subscales Table Taya Zinkin three caste groups tion types unfavourable untouchables upper castes V. D. Savarkar Varna village