Blocked by Caste

Sukhadeo Thorat is Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research and Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the former Chairman, University Grants Commission. Katherine S. Newman is James B. Knapp Dean, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. She is former Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology, and Director, Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University.

• LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE ; FOREWORD BY KAUSHIK BASU ; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION CONCEPT, CONSEQUENCES AND REMEDIES BY SUKHADEO THORAT AND KATHERINE S. NEWMAN ; PART I. MARKET DISCRIMINATION: LABOUR AND OTHER MARKETS ; 1. The Legacy of Social Exclusion: A Correspondence Study of Job Discrimination in India's Urban Private Sector by Sukhadeo Thorat and Paul Attewell ; 2. In the Name of Globalization: Meritocracy, Productivity, and the Hidden Language of Caste by Surinder S. Jodhka and Katherine S. Newman ; 3. Where the Path Leads: The Role of Caste in Post-university Employment Expectations by Ashwini Deshpande and Katherine S. Newman ; 4. Wage and Job Discrimination in the Indian Urban Labour Market by S. Madheswaran and Paul Attewell ; 5. Caste System and Pattern of Discrimination in Rural Markets by Sukhadeo Thorat , M. Mahamallik, and Nidhi Sadana ; PART 2. NON-MARKET DISCRIMINATION: HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND FOOD-RELATED INSTITUTIONS ; 6. Inequality in Health Outcomes in India: The Role of Caste and Religion by Vani K. Borooah ; 7. Caste and Patterns of Discrimination in Rural Public Health Care Services by Sanghmitra S. Acharya ; 8. Segmented Schooling: Inequalities in Primary Education by Sonalde Desai, Cecily Darden Adams, and Amaresh Dubey ; 9. Exclusion and Discrimination in Schools: Experiences of Dalit Children by Geetha B. Nambissan ; 10. Food Security Schemes and Caste Discrimination by Sukhadeo Thorat and Joel Lee ; PART 3. DISCRIMINATION-INDUCED INEQUALITIES: CAPITAL ASSETS, AND POVERTY ; 11. Caste and Ownership of Private Enterprises: Consequences of Denial of Property Rights by Sukhadeo Thorat, Debolina Kundu, and Nidhi Sadana ; 12. Minority Status and Labour Market Outcomes: Does India Have Minority Enclaves? by Maitreyi Bordia Das ; 13. Caste, Ethnicity and Religion: Linkages with Unemployment and Poverty by Smita Das ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.