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Caste, discrimination, and exclusion in modern India

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles Sage 2015Description: xxxvii, 337 pISBN:
  • 9789351502678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.51220954 B6C2
Summary: A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-à-vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and establishes how caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern India.It explores areas where caste and religious exclusion are most visible, such as human development, inequality, poverty, educational attainments, child malnutrition, health, employment, wages, gender, and access to public goods. With an in- depth theoretical foundation and empirical analysis, it establishes that in each of these sectors, the performance of upper-caste Hindu households is far better compared to that from the SC, ST, and Muslim households (http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book246166?siteId=sage-india&prodTypes=any&q=9789351502678&pageTitle=productsSearch#tabview=title)
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TABLE OF CONTENT

1. Introduction

2. The Human Development Index

3. Inequality and Poverty

4. Educational Attainment

5. Child Malnutrition

6. Health Outcomes

7. Employment and Wages

8. The Position of Women

9. Public Policy: Integrated Child Development (Anganwadi) Services

10. Public Policy: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

11. Conclusion

References

Index



A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India
This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-à-vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and establishes how caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern India.It explores areas where caste and religious exclusion are most visible, such as human development, inequality, poverty, educational attainments, child malnutrition, health, employment, wages, gender, and access to public goods. With an in- depth theoretical foundation and empirical analysis, it establishes that in each of these sectors, the performance of upper-caste Hindu households is far better compared to that from the SC, ST, and Muslim households


(http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book246166?siteId=sage-india&prodTypes=any&q=9789351502678&pageTitle=productsSearch#tabview=title)

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