Unequal Worlds: Discrimination and Social Inequality in Modern India - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199453284 ISBN 13: 9780199453283

Casa editrice: OUP India, 2015

Riassunto

In today's world social inequalities are diverse and intricate, and they are magnified by different kinds of discrimination. This volume takes up the question of social discrimination and group disadvantage of Dalits in India while also taking into account newer kinds of discrimination. The essays analyse conceptions of equality central to legislation in redressing previous discrimination in society and the discourses that have emerged around it in modern India. The Indian government and judiciary have been involved, through constitutional provisions and legal judgments, in abolishing caste discrimination. Despite efforts by the government, equality of opportunity remains an elusive ideal and several bases of discrimination continue to subvert a concern with formal and substantive equality. The promise of equality provisions and the struggle against caste discrimination are contradicted by the existence of newer kinds of social inequalities arising out of income, wealth, occupation, education, power and skills. This work specifically sets out to explore contemporary manifestations of discrimination that persist in our society through institutions and through norms and practices that define the terms on which certain social groups continue to be excluded.

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L'autore:

Vidhu Verma is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Contenuti:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• SECTION I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
• 1: Social Exclusion and Poverty: Linkages, Consequences and Policies
• Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
• 2: The Promise and Challenge of Non-Discrimination: Developing an Egalitarian Ethos
• Vidhu Verma
• 3: Political Economy and Discrimination against Dalits
• Anand Teltumbde
• SECTION II: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
• 4: The Architecture of Discrimination Law
• Tarunabh Khaitan
• 5: Elements toward a Comparative Analysis of Affirmative Action Policies
• Daniel Sabbagh
• SECTION III: STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION
• 6: Mindset, Memoirs and Untouchability: Veracity beyond Conventional Structures
• Narender Kumar
• 7: The World of Work: Gender Discrimination and Rights at the Workplace
• Vidhu Verma
• 8: Democracy, Deprivation and Dispossession: Multiple Narratives of Democracy in North India
• Badri Narayan
• 9: Discrimination, Unfavourable Inclusion and Intersectionality
• Aseem Prakash
• SECTION IV: LEGISLATION AND NEWER FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
• 10: Colonial Construction of a âCriminalâ Tribe
• Meena Radhakrishna
• 11: Deconstructing Emerging Disability Legislation in India
• Renu Addlakha
• 12: Discrimination and Sexual Minorities in India: Revisiting the Naz Judgement
• Poonam Kakoti Borah
• 13: Discrimination and Exclusion: A Case of Dalit Muslims in India
• Md. Aftab Alam
• Index
• Notes on Editor and Contributors

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• Editore: OUP India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199453284
• ISBN 13: 9780199453283
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Redattore: Verma Vidhu