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Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India book cover

1st Edition

Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India

By Ishita Mehrotra Copyright 2022
224 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

224 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

224 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book examines the structures of power and hierarchies within the agrarian political economy in India, with a focus on gender. It analyses various forms of inequalities within rural structures while situating the position of women and Dalit agriculture labourers within these discriminate networks of social exclusion, political marginalisation and poverty. The book maps the impacts of... Read more


List of Figures                                                                                     
Acknowledgements                                                                                   

1    Introduction                                                                              
2    Who Is a Labourer? Reconceptualising and Understanding the Agrarian Question of Labour Today           
3    Are All Peasants Even? Mapping Occupational Patterns and Hierarchies                                                         
4    Subsidising Patriarchal Capitalism: Labour Relations of Dalit Women                                                                                                                                                                                    5    Negotiating for Every Penny: Labour Resistance and Struggle                                                                                                                                                                    6    Conclusion    

                                                                        
References                                                                                          
Index

Biography

Ishita Mehrotra is an independent researcher with interests in political economy of agrarian relations, caste and gender, rural labour relations, labour movements and development theory. Previously, she has taught at the School of Development Studies and the School of Undergraduate Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

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