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The volume deals with social exclusion and discrimination of Scheduled Castes and issues involving class mobility, marginalisation and uneven development, development and related displacement in the context of democracy. The collection of essays delves into gender discrimination and sexual harassment in public places. With regional studies that bring out the differences and commonalities in the experience of exclusion in states like Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam and ...
In social sciences literature, there is a general agreement on the core features of social exclusion, its principal indicators, and the way it relates to inequality. Social exclusion is the denial of equal opportunities to some groups in a society by some dominant groups, which leads to the inability of the affected/excluded individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functions within the society. Recent developments in ...
The history of these ‘untouchables’ has yet become a part of Indian historiography, thought the study is of immense relevance and significance on account of the inherent radical democratic identity of their movement and their role as productive communities. Available scholarship on these oppressed communities suffers from lack of historical and written documentation. As a result, attempts towards historically locating ‘untouchables’ are impeded by an ...