Bridging the Social Gap (Paperback)  | Released: 30 Jun 2014

Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability- and ethnicity-based exclusion in particular. It then presents the status of disadvantaged groups of Dalit and Adivasi and captures inter-social group inequalities in the attainment of human development. It then goes on to analyse factors associated with high deprivation of these disadvantaged groups in terms of low access to resources, employment, education and social needs. Finally, it highlights the role of caste discrimination in economic, civil and political spheres in the persistence of group inequalities. All these issues have been explained using simple language; relevant and recent data; case studies; news highlights related to civil, social, economic and political rights violation for easy and better understanding of readers. Table of Contents: Introduction Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana SabharwalExclusion, Deprivation and Human Development: Conceptual Framework to Study Excluded Groups Sukhadeo Thorat, Arjan de Haan and Nidhi Sadana SabharwalGovernment Policy against Discrimination and for Empowerment Nidhi Sadana SabharwalExclusion and Discrimination: The Contemporary Scenario Sukhadeo Thorat and Prashant NegiHuman Development and Human Poverty by Social Groups Sukhadeo Thorat and S VenkatesanLevels and Patterns of Consumption Expenditure of Social Groups Ashwini DeshpandeLevels and Disparities in Poverty Arjan de Haan and Amaresh DubeyLiteracy and Educational Levels Sachidanand SinhaHousing and Household Amenities Sachidanand SinhaHealth and Nutritional Status Vijay Kumar Baraik and P M KulkarniOccupational Pattern M ThangarajAccess to Agricultural Land and Capital Assets R S Deshpande and Motilal MahamallikEmployment and Unemployment Situation: Rural and Urban Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan SenapatiReservation and Share in Public Employment Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan SenapatiThe Road Ahead: Dalits in the New Millennium Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana SabharwalBibliographyIndex