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This compendium of fifteen papers, presented at a conference held at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, offers valuable insight into the realities of poverty at the ground level and unequal distribution of powers among different classes in the society in India. Attempting at identifying the poor, it discusses at length the construction of poverty and the poor in colonial and post-colonial India, the measurement, patterns and determinants of poverty, and reconceiving ...
In an area which has previously been neglected by the scholarly literature, Nandini Gooptu’s magisterial history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour de force. By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and nationalist politics, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a major social and political factor in South Asia during the interwar period. She explores their central importance in the economy through a discussion of the patterns ...