Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India

Exclusion, Isolation, Domination and Extraction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.Focusing on historical and modern practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and asset transfers, as well as the enhancement of women’s rights, primary health and education, it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance.This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:658 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529230383

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Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.

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“Shome examines the much-analysed problem of Indian poverty with fresh eyes by marrying Amartya Sen's capability approach to systematic and persistent caste-based marginalization and exclusion. The book shows how, for Dalits who encounter stigma and discrimination, ‘opportunity is actually stolen by the happenstance of birth which is then followed by exclusion’.” Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University

Innehållsförteckning

1. IntroductionPart 1: Macro-Economy and Human Development2. Macro-Economic Indicators: A Backdrop3. Population, Poverty and Happiness4. National Income, Human Development and InequalityPart 2: Sources of Inequality and Poverty5. Racism, Colonialism and Slavery as International Practices6. India’s Caste Structure7. Untouchability: Ambedkar and Early ReformersPart 3: Sectoral Effects8. The Rural-Urban Divide9. Women, Children and Demographic Dividend10. Nutrition, Health, Sanitation, Water and Climate ChangePart 4: Radical Humanism11. Blueprint for Addressing Poverty and Inequality