Do rural migrants favour class or caste in the city?

Contrary to popular belief, migrant populations neither wholly retain nor completely discard their village-based ethnic ties

Tariq Thachil
Updated5 Oct 2017, 04:19 AM IST
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At labour chowks, competition manifested in the practice of wage-cutting, when one migrant undercut another to gain employment from prospective employers. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint
At labour chowks, competition manifested in the practice of wage-cutting, when one migrant undercut another to gain employment from prospective employers. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint(Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

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