Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India

Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.

• 1. IntroductionPart 1: Macro-Economy and Human Development2. Macro-Economic Indicators: A Backdrop3. Population, Poverty and Happiness4. National Income, Human Development and InequalityPart 2: Sources of Inequality and Poverty5. Racism, Colonialism and Slavery as International Practices6. India’s Caste Structure7. Untouchability: Ambedkar and Early ReformersPart 3: Sectoral Effects8. The Rural-Urban Divide9. Women, Children and Demographic Dividend10. Nutrition, Health, Sanitation, Water and Climate ChangePart 4: Radical Humanism11. Blueprint for Addressing Poverty and Inequality

“Shome examines the much-analysed problem of Indian poverty with fresh eyes by marrying Amartya Sen's capability approach to systematic and persistent caste-based marginalization and exclusion. The book shows how, for Dalits who encounter stigma and discrimination, ‘opportunity is actually stolen by the happenstance of birth which is then followed by exclusion’.” Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University