The politics of social exclusion in India : democracy at the crossroads /

Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led t...

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Other Authors: Bhattacharyya, Harihar, Sarkar, Partha, Kara, Aṃśumāna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2010.
Series:Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 14.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction: The politics of social exclusion in India: democracy at the crossroads / HARIHAR BHATTACHARYYA
  • chapter 1 Some theoretical issues concerning social exclusion and inclusion in India / SOBHANLAL DATTA GUPTA
  • chapter 2 Social exclusion and the strategy of empowerment
  • chapter 3 Identity politics and social exclusion in India's North-East: the case for redistributive justice / N.K. DAS
  • chapter 4 Inclusion in nationhood: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay's concept of jatiyabhav / HARIHAR BHATTACHARYYA
  • chapter 5 Rabindranath's concept of social exclusion and inclusion in India: a nation without nationalism / JYOTIRMAY BHATTACHARYYA
  • chapter 6 Identity and social exclusion in India: a Muslim perspective / ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
  • chapter 7 Inclusive and exclusive development in India in the post-reform era PRAvAT KUMAR KURI
  • chapter 8 Social exclusion in India: evidences from wage labour market / RAJARSHI MAJUMDAR
  • chapter 9 The Polavaram Dam project: a case of displacement of marginalized people / SUDIPTI BANERJEA
  • chapter 10 Purity as exclusion, caste as division: the ongoing battle for equality / JASBIR JAIN
  • chapter 11 Narrating gender and power: literary and cultural texts and contexts / SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
  • chapter 12 Girish Karnad's The Fire and the Rain: a study in myths of power / ANIMA BISWAS.