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Ground down by growth : tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India / Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj and Vikramaditya Thakur.
Penn Museum Library DS422.C3 S434 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Alpa, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- Wealth.
- India.
- Equality--India.
- Equality.
- Poor--India.
- Poor.
- Poverty--India.
- Poverty.
- Wealth--India.
- India--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Economic conditions.
- India--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Tribe, caste and class : new mechanics of exploitation and oppression / Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
- Macro-economic aspects of inequality and poverty in India / K. P. Kannan
- Tea belts of the Western Ghats, Kerala / Jayaseelan Raj
- Cuddalore, chemical industrial estate, Tamil Nadu / Brendan Donegan
- Bhadrachalam scheduled area, Telangana / Dalel Benbabaali
- Chamba Valley, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh / Richard Axelby
- Narmada Valley and adjoining plains, Maharashtra / Vikramaditya Thakur
- The struggles ahead / Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745337692
- 0745337694
- 9780745337685
- 0745337686
- OCLC:
- 1018400886
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