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Author: Kanta Murali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107154502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book traces the social and political origins of economic policy in India during its high growth phase after 1991.
Author: Harish Damodaran
Publisher: Hachette India
Published: 2018-11-25
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9351952800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt?s no secret that certain social groups have predominated India?s business and trading history, with business traditionally being the preserve of particular `Bania? communities. However, the past four or so decades have seen a widening of the social base of Indian capital, such that the social profile of Indian business has expanded beyond recognition, and entrepreneurship and commerce in India are no longer the exclusive bastion of the old mercantile castes. In this meticulously researched book ? acclaimed for being the first social history to document and understand India?s new entrepreneurial groups ? Harish Damodaran looks to answer who the new `wealth creators? are, as he traces the transitional entry of India?s middle and lower peasant castes into the business world. Combining analytical rigour with journalistic flair, India?s New Capitalists is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the culture and evolution of business in contemporary South Asia.
Author: Manoranjan Mohanty
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-05-24
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780761996439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation. This volume of essays looks into the dynamic interconnection of class, caste and gender in the Indian political process. The focus is on interconnection (that is a relationship involving more than one category), while at the same time trying to understand each category by itself. The complex issues of caste, gender and class have been studied through a collection of essays that look into the people's struggle for social equality. Social oppression has been analyzed in the context of protests against such exploitation. Anti-caste movements and women's movements have been studied in much detail. The volume is divided into five sections and well-known specialists have contributed pertinent essays. This important book will contribute immensely in the understanding of the contemporary Indian political process.
Author: Kanta Murali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1108179541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor millions of poor people in the developing world, economic growth offers prospects for improved well-being. But what are the political and social conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? This book addresses this highly consequential question by focusing on a specific empirical puzzle - policy variation across Indian states in the competition for private industrial investment, a phenomenon that came to the fore after the country adopted market reforms in 1991. Through the analysis of investment policies, this book offers a novel explanation, which links social identity, class, and economic policy outcomes. Its main findings highlight a link between pro-business policies and exclusionary political trends in India's high growth phase, and offer a sobering perspective on the current model of growth in the country. The book adds to our understanding of Indian political economy as well as to the dynamics of economic development in poor democracies.
Author: Samuel M. Stroope
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class or caste affects such differences. I use a multinomial logistic regression on 1,417 Hindu respondents in a nationally representative sample of India (World Values Survey-India 2001). Results indicate that religious social capital is fostered by urbanism and that this association is stronger for upper castes. Conversely, there is little evidence that social class similarly mediates the connection between urbanism and greater religious social capital. In light of these findings, religious bonding might be better understood as rooted in the interaction of caste dynamics and changes in the urban environment, rather than as a result of greater affluence. The data are also consistent with work underscoring the importance of disentangling social class and caste among Hindus in contemporary India.
Author: Oliver Cromwell Cox
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States and the world.
Author: Vijai P. Singh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1351529927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is an introduction to the role of caste and class in Indian society, meant to emphasize certain important aspects of Indian society such as continuity and change in caste, economic classes, status of women, status of Harijans, village poli-tics, overseas Indians, and casteism and tribalism. Its theoretical interest is to explain the dynamics of social inequalities in Indian society. All but one of the essays are based on research conducted in India. The other is based on research on Indian plantation workers in Sri Lanka, and included here to demonstrate that the concepts of caste and class are relevant to understanding In-dians who have emigrated to overseas countries.
Author: R. Jayaraman
Publisher: Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corporation
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maryam Aslany
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110883633X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt explores the formation of India's rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas. It examines its composition, characteristics and social identification from the perspectives of three major class theorists: Marx, Weber and Bourdieu.
Author: Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781859844656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith globalization, traditional societies are being replaced by an international working class and a small minority of the global rich. In such a situation, who is to guarantee social justice?
