Ground Down by Growth
Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India
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9780199485062
Publication date:
03/01/2018
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304 pages
Price: 850.00
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ISBN:
9780199485062
Publication date:
03/01/2018
Hardback
304 pages
Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Ground Down by Growth 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.
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Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Description
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.
About the Authors
Alpa Shah is Associate Professor in Anthropology at LSE, UK.
Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS.
Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.
Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE.
Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India.
Vikramaditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware, USA.
Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
1. Tribe, Caste and Class – New Mechanisms of Exploitation and Oppression
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
2. Macro-Economic Aspects of Inequality and Poverty in India
K.P. Kannan
3. Tea Belts of the Western Ghats, Kerala
Jayaseelan Raj
4. Cuddalore, Chemical Industrial Estate, Tamil Nadu
Brendan Donegan
5. Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana
Dalel Benbabaali
6. Chamba Valley, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh
Richard Axelby
7. Narmada Valley and Adjoining Plains, Maharashtra
Vikramaditya Thakur
8. The Struggles Ahead
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
Appendix: Tables and Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Features
- Explores how and why India’s Adivasis and Dalits continue to be at the bottom of the Indian social and economic hierarchy in spite of decades of economic reforms and poverty alleviation programmes
- Argues for an understanding of the lived reality of the poor, in particular, a more grass-roots approach to the processes of inequality and how they are experienced by particular groups
- Enables a conversation between economists and anthropologists and explores the trends that economists have presented by undertaking detailed ethnographic studies spread across strategically selected locations in five Indian states
Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Review
‘An exceptional book’
Anand Teltumbde, writer, civil rights activist and Professor, Goa Institute of Management, India
‘Explodes the myth of the modernising power of capitalism. This sensitive analysis shows that, far from doing away with inherited inequalities, Indian capitalism uses and intensifies them’
Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
‘A kaleidoscopic view of how established social forms realign to produce deepening inequality and persistent disadvantage. A compelling analysis’
Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada
Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj & and Vikramaditya Thakur
Description
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.
About the Authors
Alpa Shah is Associate Professor in Anthropology at LSE, UK.
Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS.
Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.
Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE.
Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India.
Vikramaditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware, USA.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
1. Tribe, Caste and Class – New Mechanisms of Exploitation and Oppression
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
2. Macro-Economic Aspects of Inequality and Poverty in India
K.P. Kannan
3. Tea Belts of the Western Ghats, Kerala
Jayaseelan Raj
4. Cuddalore, Chemical Industrial Estate, Tamil Nadu
Brendan Donegan
5. Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana
Dalel Benbabaali
6. Chamba Valley, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh
Richard Axelby
7. Narmada Valley and Adjoining Plains, Maharashtra
Vikramaditya Thakur
8. The Struggles Ahead
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
Appendix: Tables and Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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