Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Alpa Shah,Jens Lerche,Richard Axelby,Dalel Benbabaali,Brendan Donegan

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pluto Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 November 2017
Pages
304
ISBN
9780745337685

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Alpa Shah,Jens Lerche,Richard Axelby,Dalel Benbabaali,Brendan Donegan

Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy.

India’s Dalit and Adivasi communities make up a staggering one in twenty-five people across the globe and yet they remain amongst the most oppressed. Conceived in dialogue with economists, Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.

Through studies of the working poor, migrant labour and the conjugated oppression of caste, tribe, region, gender and class relations, the social inequalities generated by capitalism are exposed.

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