Issues on Ethnicity, Discrimination and Social Exclusion

Contents: Preface. I. Issues on tribes and marginalized people: 1. Income inequality and poverty among scheduled castes and scheduled tribes/Maniklal Adhikary and Ritwik Mazumder. 2. Tribal women and forests in India/S.N. Tripathy. 3. Conceptualizing social exclusion in the context of tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh/M.C. Behera and Jumyir Basar. 4. Inclusion of the excluded into social-mainstream through micro projects (a situation analysis)/Krishna Chandra Pradhan. 5. Tackling the problem of poverty reduction through social inclusion/Vaishali M. Thombre. 6. Forest Rights Act 2006: towards eradicating poverty among the tribes in India/Somika Sinha. 7. Ashapur--a case study in exclusion/Amrita Bhaumik and Padmini Ravindra Nath. II. Gender issues: 8. An enquiry into the nature and status of Indian tribal women/Maniklal Adhikary and Shrabanti Maity. 9. Women’s socio-economic inclusion through micro-finance/Sunil Bhau Bhosale and V.B. Kakade. 10. A comparative study of women empowerment between socially excluded groups vis-a-vis others in India: evidence from national family health survey/Aditya Kumar Patra and Arbinda Acharya. 11. Differential sex ratio: a study of social exclusion and gender in India/S.V. Siddhardha Kumar. D. 12. Girl child labour -- exploitation of exclusion/Neha Chaudhari. III. Issues on aged and minority: 13. Socio-economic exclusion of Muslim women in India/M.B. Mistry, S. Ahmad and M.N. Bari. 14. Post-retirement employment activities of an excluded group: a study of retired people in Kochi urban agglomeration/G. Visakh Varma. 15. Citizenship, exclusion and Indian Muslims/Rajeev Kumar Singh.

Conventionally, economists have identified well-being with market command over goods rather than with the state of a person. The present volume goes precisely beyond the traditional concepts of consumption income or wealth and offers a broad, inclusive view of inequality, discrimination and well-being. Themes mainly centres round the premises of capabilities and inequalities, discrimination and segregation in the labour market, equality of opportunities, globalization and inequality, human development and the quality f life and development, discrimination in health and education, problems of poverty among children and elderly people.

The book contains 15 well written papers, endeavours to examine the multi-dimensional aspects of discrimination and exclusion of Dalits, tribes, nomads, women and minorities and also provides some measures to tackle the problems.