Employment, Poverty and Rights in India
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarel...
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| description | In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes. Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses unemployment in India and explains why the issues of employment and unemployment should be the appropriate prism to understand the status of wellbeing in India. The author provides a historical analysis of policy interventions on behalf of the colonial and postcolonial state with regard to the alleviation of unemployment and poverty in India and in West Bengal in particular. Arguing that, as long as poverty - either as a concept or as an empirical condition - remains as a technical issue to be managed by governmental technologies, the ‘poor’ will be held responsible for their own fate and the extent of poverty will continue to increase. The book contends that rural unemployment in India is not just an economic issue but a political process that has consistently been shaped by various socio-economic, political and cultural factors since the colonial period. The analysis which depends mainly on ethnography extends to the implementation of the ‘New Rights Agenda’, such as the MGNREGA, at the rural margin. Challenging the dominant approach to poverty, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of South Asian studies, Indian Political Economy, contemporary political theories, poverty studies, neo-liberalism, sociology and social anthropology as well as development studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1594912025-05-16T05:13:50Z Employment, Poverty and Rights in India Roy, Dayabati Tamil Nadu World Development Report Concerned NGO Rural West Bengal West Bengal Civil Society Small Peasant Economy Rural Grass Roots Rural Poor Political Parties Bhadralok Elites Rich Peasantry Wage Employment Programmes Middle Castes Panchayat Representatives Good Life Minimum Social Cost NGO Sector Hindu Succession Act Scheduled Castes India’s Democratic System Subsistence Ethic Rural Unemployment ST Community Communist Left thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes. Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses unemployment in India and explains why the issues of employment and unemployment should be the appropriate prism to understand the status of wellbeing in India. The author provides a historical analysis of policy interventions on behalf of the colonial and postcolonial state with regard to the alleviation of unemployment and poverty in India and in West Bengal in particular. Arguing that, as long as poverty - either as a concept or as an empirical condition - remains as a technical issue to be managed by governmental technologies, the ‘poor’ will be held responsible for their own fate and the extent of poverty will continue to increase. The book contends that rural unemployment in India is not just an economic issue but a political process that has consistently been shaped by various socio-economic, political and cultural factors since the colonial period. The analysis which depends mainly on ethnography extends to the implementation of the ‘New Rights Agenda’, such as the MGNREGA, at the rural margin. Challenging the dominant approach to poverty, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of South Asian studies, Indian Political Economy, contemporary political theories, poverty studies, neo-liberalism, sociology and social anthropology as well as development studies. 2025-05-16T05:13:50Z 2025-05-16T05:13:50Z 2025-05-15T10:03:23Z 2018 book ONIX_20250515T115059_9781351065412_25 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101771 9781351065412 9780367590307 9781351065399 9781138479586 9781351065405 9781351065429 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159491 eng Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101771/1/9781351065412.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781351065429 10.4324/9781351065429 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 de5fbf73-4b88-41db-9c5c-388e5997608a 9781351065412 9780367590307 9781351065399 9781138479586 9781351065405 9781351065429 Routledge 204 Oxford [...] open access |
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