Bridging the social gap perspectives on Dalit empowerment - Thorat, Sukhadeo; Sabharwal, Nidhi Sadana (SAGE, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Exclusion, Deprivation and Human Development: Conceptual Framework to Study Excluded Groups -- 2. Government Policy against Discrimination and for Empowerment -- 3. Exclusion and Discrimination: The Contemporary Scenario -- 4. Human Development and Human Poverty by Social Groups -- 5. Levels and Patterns of Consumption Expenditure of Social Groups -- 6. Levels and Disparities in Poverty -- 7. Literacy and Educational Levels -- 8. Housing and Household Amenities -- 9. Health and Nutritional Status -- 10. Occupational Pattern -- 11. Access to Agricultural Land and Capital Assets -- 12. Employment and Unemployment Situation: Rural and Urban -- 13. Reservation and Share in Public Employment -- 14. The Road Ahead: Dalits In The New Millenium
"Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability- and ethnicity-based exclusion in particular. It then presents the status of disadvantaged groups of Dalit and Adivasi and captures inter-social group inequalities in the attainment of human development. It then goes on to analyse factors associated with high deprivation of these disadvantaged groups in terms of low access to resources, employment, education and social needs. Finally, it highlights the role of caste discrimination in economic, civil and political spheres in the persistence of group inequalities. All these issues have been explained using simple language; relevant and recent data; case studies; news highlights related to civil, social, economic and political rights violation for easy and better understanding of readers"--Provided by publisher