Overview

India‘s economic growth has brought opportunities for many but to what extent has it benefitted its ethnically-shaped underclass: the Dalits? Have Dalits fared better in a neoliberal India or have structural economic and social changes served to magnify Dalit disadvantage? This volume offers a varied picture of Dalit experience in different states

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Author:   Clarinda Still
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.344kg
ISBN:  

9780367176839

ISBN 10:   0367176831
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Maps, Figures and Plates. Tables. Abbreviations. Foreword Mukulika Banerjee. Acknowledgements. Dalits in Neoliberal India: An Overview Clarinda Still 1. Dalit Entrepreneurs, Globalisation and the Supplier Diversity Experiment in Madhya Pradesh Sudha Pai 2. Trajectories of Dalits Incorporation into the Indian Neoliberal Business Economy Kaushal K. Vidyarthee 3. Locating Caste in a Globalising Indian City: A Study of Dalit Ex-millworkers Occupational Choices in Post-industrial Mumbai Sumeet Mhaskar 4. Legislating for Liberation? Dalit Electoral Politics and Social Change in Tamil Nadu Hugo Gorringe 5. A Book Also Travels: Circulating Small Booklets in Dalit Poorva Badri Narayan 6. Low Caste Elites and Re-traditionalised Responses: Status and Security in an Economically Uncertain Time Jordan C. R. Mullard 7. Dalit Women Becoming Housewives : Lessons from the Tiruppur Region, 1981 82 to 2008 09 Judith Heyer 8. Finding One‘s Place among the Elite: How Dalits Experiencing Sharp Upward Social Mobility Adjust to Their New Social Status Jules Naudet. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index.

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'This volume takes a fresh look at one of the key debates on caste in contemporary India: whether Dalits are finally unshackling the stranglehold of economic marginalisation, discrimination and stigma, and straddling new opportunities for upward mobility, as the Indian economy liberalises.' -- Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics '[A] book about the contemporary realities of caste, the dynamics of change and its persistence, the messy realities of prejudice, exclusion and deprivation along with positive stories of mobility, social movements and deepening democracy in today's India.' -- Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'Offers a wide-ranging and incisive analysis of the condition of India's Dalits ... thoughtful, rich, and beautifully observed -- a wonderful resource for South Asianists and development scholars.' -- Craig Jeffrey, Professor of Development Geography, University of Oxford

'This volume takes a fresh look at one of the key debates on caste in contemporary India: whether Dalits are finally unshackling the stranglehold of economic marginalisation, discrimination and stigma, and straddling new opportunities for upward mobility, as the Indian economy liberalises.' -- Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics '[A] book about the contemporary realities of caste, the dynamics of change and its persistence, the messy realities of prejudice, exclusion and deprivation along with positive stories of mobility, social movements and deepening democracy in today's India.' -- Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'Offers a wide-ranging and incisive analysis of the condition of India's Dalits ... thoughtful, rich, and beautifully observed -- a wonderful resource for South Asianists and development scholars.' -- Craig Jeffrey, Professor of Development Geography, University of Oxford

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Clarinda Still is Lecturer of Modern Indian Studies, University of Oxford; and Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College.

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