Unequal Worlds

Discrimination and Social Inequality in Modern India

Vidhu Verma

The essays study from different perspectives, the much discussed and crucial topic of social discrimination, and particularly Dalit exploitation.
The work is highly interdisciplinary in nature-relevant for several subjects and disciplines such as political science, sociology, Dalit studies, minority studies, women's studies, anthropology, law, economics
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. The contributors bring in different critical perspectives from their different disciplines.

Unequal Worlds

Discrimination and Social Inequality in Modern India

Vidhu Verma

Description

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 analyze 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.

Unequal Worlds

Discrimination and Social Inequality in Modern India

Vidhu Verma

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 aCriminala 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