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Bridging the Social Gap
Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment
First Edition
Edited by:
- Sukhadeo Thorat - Chairman, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi
- Nidhi S. Sabharwal - National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India
Courses:
Introductory Sociology
Introductory Sociology
January 2019 | 308 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability- and ethnicity-based exclusion in particular. It then presents the status of disadvantaged groups of Dalit and Adivasi and captures inter-social group inequalities in the attainment of human development. It then goes on to analyse factors associated with high deprivation of these disadvantaged groups in terms of low access to resources, employment, education and social needs. Finally, it highlights the role of caste discrimination in economic, civil and political spheres in the persistence of group inequalities.
All these issues have been explained using simple language; relevant and recent data; case studies; news highlights related to civil, social, economic and political rights violation for easy and better understanding of readers.
Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
Introduction
Sukhadeo Thorat, Arjan de Haan and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
Exclusion, Deprivation and Human Development: Conceptual Framework to Study Excluded Groups
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
Government Policy against Discrimination and for Empowerment
Sukhadeo Thorat and Prashant Negi
Exclusion and Discrimination: The Contemporary Scenario
Sukhadeo Thorat and S Venkatesan
Human Development and Human Poverty by Social Groups
Ashwini Deshpande
Levels and Patterns of Consumption Expenditure of Social Groups
Arjan de Haan and Amaresh Dubey
Levels and Disparities in Poverty
Sachidanand Sinha
Literacy and Educational Levels
Sachidanand Sinha
Housing and Household Amenities
Vijay Kumar Baraik and P M Kulkarni
Health and Nutritional Status
M Thangaraj
Occupational Pattern
R S Deshpande and Motilal Mahamallik
Access to Agricultural Land and Capital Assets
Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapati
Employment and Unemployment Situation: Rural and Urban
Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapati
Reservation and Share in Public Employment
Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
The Road Ahead: Dalits in the New Millennium
Bibliography
Index
These are amongst the few studies that pose the caste question to the ideas of human development/rights.
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