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This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities in the country's rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic, primary survey and secondary data methods, this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class, caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments, based on the development of several new indicators, to examine rural inequality.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, development studies, development economics, sociology, public policy, political science, political sociology, and rural sociology.
List of contents
Part I: Visualizing inequality 1. Processes of inequality 2. Processes of transformation 3. Vulnerability and escape Part II: Interpersonal and intergroup inequalities 4. Tangible vulnerability 5. Gendered intangible inequality 6. Power and dominance Part III: Intrapersonal inequalities 7. Intrapersonal inequality and distance dualism 8. Caste, power, and aspiration in structural dualism 9. Regional divergence in farmers' suicides 10. Conceptualizing farmers' suicides 11. Agricultural labour suicides in a Kerala village 12. Cultivator suicides in a Maharashtra village 13. Precariousness and suicide Part IV: Negotiations of inequality 14. Aspirations and victimhood 15. Difference and inequality
About the author
Narendar Pani is Professor and Head of the Inequality and Human Development Programme at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India.
Summary
This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic, primary survey and secondary data methods, this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class, caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments, based on the development of several new indicators, to examine rural inequality.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, development studies, development economics, sociology, public policy, political science, political sociology, and rural sociology.
