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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 ...
The work presents an in-depth understanding of failures in the course of development and identity politics in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It delves into neo-liberal change and political transformation in India’s largest and poorest state of UP, probing the association between transitions in the contemporary economy of India and the nature of political transformations. Concerned with, broadly, issues of the state, the civil society, democracy and social ...
The State of Uttar Pradesh – India’s most populous, but also one of its poorest – is in crisis, logging behind the rest of the country in terms of social development, economic growth, and women’s empowerment, with inefficient and ineffective democratic institutions. In this timely book established scholars and new voices from Europe reflect on aspects of the perilous condition of UP, address in a range of issues, all drawing on intensive and extended ...
This volume is about the emerging development trajectories of rural labour in India, based on studies from its regions and states. Its overarching theme is rural class conflict and the result of such conflict; and the intimate link between this and the nature and impact of state intervention is considered. Vigorous emancipatory processes are identified, and the limitations of contra-dictions inherent in such processes are examined. Both powerful general trends ...