Mapping Social Exclusion in India: Caste, Religion and BorderlandsParamjit S. Judge This book assesses the problem of defining exclusion, highlights the need for its contextualisation and establishes a relationship between social exclusion, deprivation and discrimination. It studies the complex mosaic of Indian systems and society, marked with exclusionary practices and structures on the basis of caste. It presents grassroots level information through empirical investigations and studies how physical spaces become sites of exclusion when borders become volatile. Scholars put together their diverse research, studies, perceptions and ideas and, most importantly, their years of expertise to focus on a central theme of social exclusion in Indian society. They study the role of the state as an interventionist force and look into the political mobilisation strategy as a reaction to exclusion. The book also takes a critical look at the reservation policy and argues that state intervention creates certain new forms of exclusion. |
Contents
List ofTables and Figures | 1 |
Inequality Poverty and Social Exclusion in India | 24 |
Social Exclusion Globalization and Marginalized Groups | 39 |
A Case of | 57 |
List of Tables and Figures | 69 |
Exclusion in Inclusion | 75 |
Coping with Exclusions the NonPolitical Way | 93 |
Egalitarian Religion and Castebased Exclusion in Rural Punjab | 108 |
Patterns of Deprivation of | 146 |
Caste Social Exclusion and | 164 |
Caste and Dynamics ofInclusion and Exclusion in | 192 |
No Mans Land? Exclusion in the Borderbelt of Punjab | 218 |
Fencing and | 237 |
Barbed Wire Fencing and Exclusion ofBorder Communities | 253 |
Conclusion | 267 |
Contributors | 277 |
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affirmative action agricultural Ambedkar Amritsar Ferozepur Total Arya Samaj B. R. Ambedkar Ballan Balmikis BAMCEF barbed wire belonging border areas border belt border communities Brahmins caste system caste-based cent ofthe respondents Chamars Charak cleaning Constitution cultural Dalit identity Delhi depressed classes deprivation Dera Ballan Dera Sachkhand Ballan Dharm discrimination district economic elected farmers Ferozepur Field notes Note Goga gram panchayat gram sabha groups Gurdaspur gurdwaras Guru Ravidass hierarchy Hindu inclusion India Indian society inequality issue Jats Khatis labour living major marginalized Mazabis Meghs movement Muslims number in parenthesis occupation ofDalit ofIndia ofJammu ofPunjab one’s Pakistan panchayat members panna percentage Political Weekly population poverty practice problems Punjab Rajput Ravidassia region religion religious reservation policy rural sarpanch scavengers scheduled castes sector Sikh Sikhism Singh social exclusion socio-economic status structure Table Tarn Taran traditional untouchability upper castes various women