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Author-Name: Yatish  Arya
Author-Name-First: Yatish 
Author-Name-Last: Arya
Author-Email: yatish.arya@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Ashoka University
Author-Name: Amit  Chaudhary
Author-Name-First: Amit 
Author-Name-Last: Chaudhary
Author-Email: amit.chaudhary.3@warwick.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
Author-Name: Anisha  Garg
Author-Name-First: Anisha 
Author-Name-Last: Garg
Author-Email: anisha.garg@warwick.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Title: Religious Identity, Lost Learning: Evidence from Colonial India
Abstract: Religious groups sometimes resist welfare-enhancing interventions, impacting human capital. Can resistance to secular education arise when rulers
sharing religious identity with a group are deposed by foreign powers? Focusing on colonial India, we analyze the impact of shared religious identity
between deposed local rulers and religious groups on literacy. Muslim literacy is lower where British authorities replaced a Muslim ruler, and Hindu literacy is lower when the ousted ruler was Hindu. Addressing OVB, we use literacy differences, complemented by an IV approach. Our results show that the effect of shared religious identity on literacy rates depended on the historical ties between deposed rulers and their subjects: in districts where ousted rulers had historical connections to their co-religionists, there was greater resistance to education introduced by the colonizers.
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Creation-Date: 20250127
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File-URL:https://dp.ashoka.edu.in/ash/wpaper/paper138_0.pdf
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Number: 138
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:138