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This paper examines examines how the children who are disadvantaged caste, gender, and class identity can derive any positive benefits from other advantageous identities and shows that class inequality dominates caste inequality and caste inequality dominates gender inequality in rural North India for all levels of stunting. In contrast, caste inequality dominates class inequality which in turn dominates gender inequality for severe stunting in rural South India