Research Catalog

Title

Caste, discrimination, and exclusion in modern India / Vani Kant Borooah, Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal, Dilip G. Diwakar, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Ajaya Kumar Naik.

Author

Borooah, Vani K.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Diwakar, Dilip G.
• Sabharwal, Nidhi Sadana.

Description

xl, 337 pages : illustrations, charts; 23 cm

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--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.

Subjects

• Reverse discrimination
• Social stratification
• 89.41 internal relations of the state with separate groups
• Reverse discrimination > India
• Equality > India
• Social stratification > India
• Political planning > India
• 71.61 discrimination
• India
• Caste > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Sukhadeo Thorat -- Preface -- Introduction -- The human development index -- Inequality and poverty -- Educational attainment -- Child malnutrition -- Health outcomes -- Employment and wages -- The position of women -- Public policy : integrated child development -- (anganwadi) services -- Public policy : the rashtriya swasthya -- Bima yojana -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the authors.

ISBN

• 9789351502678
• 9351502678
• 9789351502685 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015019631

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library