204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes. Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses... Read more
1. Introduction: Land, Capital and Wellbeing in India 2. Right to Work! Politics of Poverty Alleviation Policies in India 3. Political Parties, Employment Generation Policies and Governance 4. Caste, Class and Rural Employment 5. Civil Society, NGOs and Rural Employment 6. Gender, Women and Employment 7. Employment, Capital and the State in rural India
Biography
Dayabati Roy is Faculty Member in the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published articles in various journals including Modern Asian Studies and she is the author of Rural Politics in India: Political Stratification and Governance in West Bengal (2013).
