Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Focusing on historical and modern practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and assets transfers and enhancement of women’s rights, primary health and education, it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance.
This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.
By:
Parthasarathi Shome (London School of Economics)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529230383
ISBN 10: 1529230381
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction Part 1: Macro-Economy and Human Development 2. Macro-Economic Indicators: A Backdrop 3. Population, Poverty and Happiness 4. National Income, Human Development and Inequality Part 2: Sources of Inequality and Poverty 5. Racism, Colonialism and Slavery as International Practices 6. India’s Caste Structure 7. Untouchability: Ambedkar and Early Reformers Part 3: Sectoral Effects 8. The Rural-Urban Divide 9. Women, Children and Demographic Dividend 10. Nutrition, Health, Sanitation, Water and Climate Change Part 4: Radical Humanism 11. Blueprint for Addressing Poverty and Inequality
Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.
Reviews for The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India: Exclusion, Isolation, Domination and Extraction
"""Shome examines the much-analysed problem of Indian poverty with fresh eyes by marrying Amartya Sen's capability approach to systematic and persistent caste-based marginalization and exclusion. The book shows how, for Dalits who encounter stigma and discrimination, 'opportunity is actually stolen by the happenstance of birth which is then followed by exclusion'."" Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University"
