The Grammar of Caste
Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India
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9780199471980
Publication date:
24/01/2017
Paperback
352 pages
Price: 575.00
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ISBN:
9780199471980
Publication date:
24/01/2017
Paperback
352 pages
Ashwini Deshpande
Linking the economics of caste with its politics, sociology, and history, this innovative book provides a stimulating assessment of the continuities and changes in caste disparities in India 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.
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Ashwini Deshpande
Description
Linking the economics of caste with its politics, sociology, and history, this innovative book provides a stimulating assessment of the continuities and changes in caste disparities in India 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.
About the Author
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of international economics, economics of discrimination, and the Chinese economy. She has published Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives (ed. 2008) with OUP. She is the recipient of the V.K.R.V. Rao Award (2007) for economists under 45.
Ashwini Deshpande
Table of contents
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
Ashwini Deshpande
Review
‘In this splendidly investigative study, Ashwini Deshpande has brilliantly illuminated the continued—and massive—influence of caste in the economy. She has also shown how caste divisions reinforce other causes of inequality and injustice, including class and gender. This is a superb contribution to the understanding of modern India.’
—Amartya Sen
Ashwini Deshpande
Description
Linking the economics of caste with its politics, sociology, and history, this innovative book provides a stimulating assessment of the continuities and changes in caste disparities in India 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.
About the Author
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of international economics, economics of discrimination, and the Chinese economy. She has published Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives (ed. 2008) with OUP. She is the recipient of the V.K.R.V. Rao Award (2007) for economists under 45.
Table of contents
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
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