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Bridging the social gap [electronic resource] : perspectives on Dalit empowerment / edited by Sukhadeo Thorat, Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal.

"Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Other Authors: Thorat, Sukhadeo (Editor), Sabharwal, Nidhi Sadana (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, [2014]
Subjects:
Dalits > India > Economic conditions.
Dalits > India > Social conditions.
Caste > India.
Discrimination > India.
Caste.
Dalits > Economic conditions.
Dalits > Social conditions.
Discrimination.
India.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Exclusion, Deprivation and Human Development: Conceptual Framework to Study Excluded Groups
  • 2. Government Policy against Discrimination and for Empowerment
  • 3. Exclusion and Discrimination: The Contemporary Scenario
  • 4. Human Development and Human Poverty by Social Groups
  • 5. Levels and Patterns of Consumption Expenditure of Social Groups
  • 6. Levels and Disparities in Poverty
  • 7. Literacy and Educational Levels
  • 8. Housing and Household Amenities
  • 9. Health and Nutritional Status
  • 10. Occupational Pattern
  • 11. Access to Agricultural Land and Capital Assets
  • 12. Employment and Unemployment Situation: Rural and Urban
  • 13. Reservation and Share in Public Employment
  • 14. The Road Ahead: Dalits In The New Millenium.

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