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Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion is an analytical study that focuses on the socially marginalized and excluded groups in India since the onset of liberalization. It examines how the liberal economic reforms have impacted socio-economic categories—caste, tribe and religious minorities—subjecting them to further deprivation.
Case studies of handloom weavers, VRS workers and the temperance movement have awarded this study empirical reality. The book also offers a refreshing approach to the study of economic reforms through philosophical and theoretical arguments on issues like civil society, religion, caste and alienation.
Since most of the scholarly works on social exclusion are based on Western notions of ‘deprivation’ and ‘exclusion’, this work's unique focus on India lends the reader a context-specific understanding of the subject. The jargon free language makes the book readable even for a general reader to help him/her to understand Indian society
Impact of Reforms on Scheduled Castes
Impact of Reforms on Scheduled Castes
The chapter is devoted to examine the existing schemes and their impact on the SCs after economic reforms. In the process we intend to point out the shortcomings in the agenda of dalit development.
The most important and numerically significant social category which is traditionally excluded from the mainstream society in India is the SCs. They are also called dalits in a good number of studies of social scientists today. The impact of reforms on the dalits has not been made as a separate category of analysis in most of the studies undertaken by economists. They are lumped together with others who come under the so-called Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. Therefore, we have studied ...
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