Class and Inequality in China and India, 19502010

About the author

Vamsi Vakulabharanam is Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has previously taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). His recent research focuses on inequality in India and China and the political economy of Indian cities through the axes of gender, caste, class, and religion. In the past, he has also worked on agrarian change in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. Vakulabharanam was awarded the Amartya Sen award in 2013 by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

Summary

By meticulously analyzing India and China's inequality stories between 1950 and 2010 through a class lens, this book locates inequality in these countries within the larger contexts of Asian and global capitalism.

Additional text

Dr. Vakulabharanam presents striking similarities of class and inequality between China and India in this book, despite their very different domestic institutions. His comparative study has challenged some of the received wisdoms about the process of economic development, as well as confirmed many of them. The book provides a reference point for future studies.

Product details

• Authors: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Vamsi (Co-Director Vakulabharanam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9780198934127
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893412-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford India-China Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Social discrimination and social justice