As India urbanizes, residential patterns in her towns/cities have become progressively more complex in terms of caste, religion, income and other socioeconomic attributes. Many have conventionally used the Dissimilarity Index (an aspatial measure) to decipher such segregation patterns, yet seldom investigated the vital role of spatial scales and local geographies in shaping them. Utilizing neighborhood-level caste and demographic data for the cities of Kolkata and Bengaluru, this paper unravels the intricacies of caste-based residential segregation patterns and compares their respective trends, using spatially sensitive segregation indices to examine the interactions among different caste groups at varying spatial scales. The decomposition of these indices into local spatial segregation indices allowed examination of the intra-city segregation patterns existing within these urban spaces more thoroughly. Findings reveal that, in 2011, Kolkata exhibited a greater degree of caste-based residential segregation than Bengaluru. In terms of their respective decadal trends (1991–2011), caste primacy still played a crucial role in molding residential patterns across Kolkata's neighborhoods, since an almost negligible improvement was discerned in its global indices. The local segregation patterns, however, revealed a complex geography of caste-based residential patterning in these cities, thereby underscoring the necessity of considering scale-dependencies and spatial relationships in such studies.

随着印度的城市化，其城镇/城市的居住模式在种姓、宗教、收入和其他社会经济属性方面逐渐变得更加复杂。许多人传统上使用相异指数（一种空间测量）来解读这种隔离模式，但很少研究空间尺度和当地地理在塑造它们时的重要作用。本文利用加尔各答和班加罗尔城市的邻里级种姓和人口数据，揭示了基于种姓的住宅隔离模式的复杂性，并比较了它们各自的趋势，使用空间敏感的隔离指数来研究不同空间中不同种姓群体之间的相互作用秤。将这些指数分解为局部空间隔离指数，可以更彻底地检查这些城市空间中存在的城内隔离模式。调查结果显示，2011 年，加尔各答的种姓居住隔离程度高于班加罗尔。就各自的十年趋势（1991-2011）而言，种姓至上在塑造加尔各答社区的居住模式方面仍然发挥着至关重要的作用，因为其全球指数的改善几乎可以忽略不计。然而，当地的隔离模式揭示了这些城市中基于种姓的居住模式的复杂地理，从而强调了在此类研究中考虑规模依赖性和空间关系的必要性。