The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India
Exclusion, Isolation, Domination and Extraction
Seiten
2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3038-3 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3038-3 (ISBN)
This book analyses poverty in India as being intimately connected with the advent of caste, untouchability, colonialism, indentured servitude and slavery, and their relation to modern practices. It recommends a slew of bold domestic and international policies to eliminate poverty.
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 asset transfers, as well as the 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.
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 asset transfers, as well as the 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.
Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 44 Tables, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5292-3038-1 / 1529230381 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-3038-3 / 9781529230383 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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