TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deshpande,Ashwini
TI  - The grammar of caste: economic discrimination in contemporary India 
SN  - 9780199471980 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.51220954 DES 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Caste
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - People with social disabilities
KW  - Government policy
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -