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The grammar of caste : economic discrimination in contemporary India / Ashwini Deshpande.

By: Material type: TextTextNew Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xxi, 295 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199471980 (pbk.)
  • 0198072031
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.51220954 DES 011701
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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?.
Summary: This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India from an economist's perspective. Questioning traditional wisdom on the degree of change in the caste system over the last two decades, it brings together evidence on different dimensions of caste disparities based on two large national-level data sets.
List(s) this item appears in: Writings of Resistance
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 305.51220954 DES 013069 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 013069
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 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?.

This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India from an economist's perspective. Questioning traditional wisdom on the degree of change in the caste system over the last two decades, it brings together evidence on different dimensions of caste disparities based on two large national-level data sets.

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