surname sociology
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Who Sees? A Caste Audit of an Anonymous Elite Indian Hospital
A surname-level audit of an anonymised elite Indian hospital, and what it tells us about reservation, fellowship capture, and how prestige sub-specialties reproduce themselves outside the reach of the Mandal…
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Ghar whapisi
X.T.M jokes that a booking made under his wife’s family name Lalchand sounded better than his own, and that he is thinking of softening his ‘Muslimness’ ahead of a possible…
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Why language families matter (in an Iranian context)
X.T.M notes that many Iranian surnames cluster by religion and ethnicity, unlike Turkey’s deliberately neutral ones, and that several ‘Persian’ friends turn out to have Kurdish, Bakhtiari or other Iranian…
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The father of Hamid (Dabholkar)
Starting from the name Hamid Dabholkar, the poster explores how Maharashtrian surnames with a -kar suffix point to ancestral villages, with examples from Ambedkar to Narlikar, and describes the Dabholkar…
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Caste system explained?
Extracts on Raj Chetty’s finding that US social mobility is low and steady and on Gregory Clark’s surname research, which the poster says implicitly works as a caste test.
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Copts- elites amongst elites
Comments on Gregory Clark’s The Son Also Rises, noting that categories such as Indian Christians and Black Africans are crude and suggesting generation-by-generation data on Indians.
