Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367547864 ISBN 13: 9780367547868

Publisher: Routledge India, 2023

Synopsis

This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic, primary survey and secondary data methods, this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class, caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments, based on the development of several new indicators, to examine rural inequality.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, development studies, development economics, sociology, public policy, political science, political sociology, and rural sociology.

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About the Author

Narendar Pani is Professor and Head of the Inequality and Human Development Programme at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367547864
• ISBN 13: 9780367547868
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Pani Narendar