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Equality in Post-Independence India: Progress and Challenges
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Commitment to equality central to Indian nationalist project
- 3 Fierce debate among Indians before independence on how to protect weaker groups and tackle discrimination
- 4 1950 Constitution reflected Nehru's vision
- 5 1951 established precedent that who benefits from reservations can be as much about political clout and upcoming elections as disadvantage
- 6 Large scale political inclusion of BCs and SCs and creation of SC middle class
- 7 Big differences in poverty by state and region
- 8 Muslims overrepresented in low paid and unpredictable occupations
- 9 By Caste: Likelihood of different kinds of employment (2014)
- 10 Still lots of Market Discrimination (Thorat, Attewell & Rizvi 2006; Madheswaran 2006)
- 11 'Pre-Market' Inequalities also fed by deep-rooted casteism and anti-poor bias (eg Weiner 1990; Rao 2013)
- 12 Excluded groups' lack of cultural capital' and connections (Jeffrey 2010; Jodhka and Newman 2007) We also ask a lot of questions related to family background. Questions like how many family members a…
- 13 Failures in the delivery of food to poor through Targeted Public Distribution Schemes 2003-04
