Ground down by growth : tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India /
Shah, Alpa
Ground down by growth : tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India / Alpa Shah and others - India Oxford University Press 2018 - 281 p.
Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.
9780199485062
Poor
Poverty
Wealth
India
Social conditions
Caste
Economic history
Equality
305.5122 SHA-A
Ground down by growth : tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India / Alpa Shah and others - India Oxford University Press 2018 - 281 p.
Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.
9780199485062
Poor
Poverty
Wealth
India
Social conditions
Caste
Economic history
Equality
305.5122 SHA-A