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Dalit Households in Village Economies (Hardcover)
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Caste is an institution of oppression and social discrimination
specific to South Asia, more so to India. Central to the caste
system were the status assigned to the Dalit people and the
criminal practice of untouchability. Caste is embedded in
production relations. It is an impediment to the growth of the
productive forces, and a bulwark against the revolutionary
overthrow of the ruling classes. Although there have been, in
recent years, new scholarship and new attempts to understand the
socio-economic conditions of life of Dalit people and households in
India, it is still true, as a leading scholar in the field has
written, that 'very few empirical studies have tried to study the
phenomenon of economic discrimination'. This book is an attempt to
contribute to the study and understanding of economic deprivation
and exclusion among Dalits in rural India. The first section deals
with poverty and group discrimination. The second section has case
studies - from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal - on historical
aspects of land, caste and social exclusion. The third section
deals with contemporary fieldwork-based economic analyses from
Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The last section has studies of Dalit
households in village economies; the empirical base for these
studies comes from the village-level data archive of the Project on
Agrarian Relations (PARI) being conducted by the Foundation for
Agrarian Studies.The articles in the book are evidence, in some
cases, of direct discrimination, and in others of what has been
described as differential impact discrimination. Most of all, they
reflect cumulative discrimination and disadvantage.
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