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Despite various poverty alleviation programmes, the number of slum-dwellers in increasing continuously. In fact, it is not solely an economic problem but a problem of lopsided socio-economic development, under both a social system in a traditional set up and a capitalist system in a modern set up. The present study notes that various programmes of wage employment, rural development and equity have not helped to improve the lot. To check the migration of rural ...
Sociologists and social anthropologists have developed indological, structural functional and Marxian approaches towards the understanding of Indian society. Despite a distinctive history of conflict from the times of Buddha to the contemporary Ambedkar, social scientists have made non-Brahman traditions a part of broader Hinduism. In British India, although a number of social reformers had launched anti-systemic movements to challenge the hegemony of upper-caste ...