The Grammar of Caste

Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-947198-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in its contemporary avatar. Linking the economics of caste with its politics, sociology, and history, this innovative book provides a stimulating assessment of continuities and changes in caste disparities over the last two decades. Deshpande uses rich empirical data to uncover how contemporary, formal, urban sector labour markets reflect a deep awareness of caste, religious, gender, and class cleavages. She convincingly argues that discrimination is neither a relic of the past nor is it confined to rural areas, but is very much a modern, formal sector phenomenon. This insightful book, with a new introduction to the paperback edition, is an important step towards a multidisciplinary dialogue for understanding (and mitigating) inequalities based on birth and descent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deshpande, Ashwini

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to the Paperback Edition

- List of Tables and Figures

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- List of Abbreviations

- 1. The Economics of Caste

- 2. Theories of Discrimination and Caste

- 3. Mind the Gap

- 4. Overlapping Identities: Caste and Gender

- 5. Measuring Discrimination

- 6. Merit, Mobility, and Modernism: Discrimination in Urban Labour Markets

- 7. What is to be Done?

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ashwini Deshpande is Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India. She is the author of Affirmative Action in India (OISI), OUP 2013.