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- English
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About this book
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 in contemporary India. The essays draw on factual research in rural and urban areas by experts in the field. With case studies ranging from Dalit entrepreneurs in Bhopal to housewives in Tamil Nadu to ex-millworkers in Mumbai, the book contends that radically progressive change and advance is attended by discrimination and exclusion, as well as surprising new areas of stigma.
With contributions by political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and economists, the volume will be key reading for scholars and students of Dalit and subaltern studies, sociology, political science, and economics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Maps, Figures and Plates
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Dalits in Neoliberal India: An Overview
- 1. Dalit Entrepreneurs, Globalisation and the Supplier Diversity Experiment in Madhya Pradesh
- 2. Trajectories of Dalits' Incorporation into the Indian Neoliberal Business Economy
- 3. Locating Caste in a Globalising Indian City: A Study of Dalit Ex-millworkers' Occupational Choices in Post-industrial Mumbai
- 4. Legislating for Liberation? Dalit Electoral Politics and Social Change in Tamil Nadu
- 5. A Book Also Travels: Circulating Small Booklets in Dalit Poorva
- 6. Low Caste Elites and Re-traditionalised Responses: Status and Security in an Economically Uncertain Time
- 7. Dalit Women Becoming 'Housewives': Lessons from the Tiruppur Region, 1981-82 to 2008–09
- 8. Finding One's Place among the Elite: How Dalits Experiencing Sharp Upward Social Mobility Adjust to their New Social Status
- Notes on Contributors
- Index